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Harrer in Tibet

In 1944, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer fled into the forbidden land of Tibet to escape from an Indian prisoner-of-war camp. He later wrote the book Seven Years in Tibet.

In 1944, two Austrian mountaineers fled into the forbidden land of Tibet to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in India. Heinrich Harrer and his friend Peter Aufschnaiter spent seven years as guests of the Tibetans, gaining a unique perspective on a way-of-life that was about to disappear. Harrer became the young Dalai Lama's unofficial tutor and later wrote a famous account of his visit called Seven Years in Tibet. Hear Heinrich Harrer's memories of Tibet from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archive.

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Wed 30 Mar 2016 12:04

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