![]() ![]() A strong friendship developed between the two that would last the rest of their lives. Harrer first met the 14th Dalai Lama when he was summoned to the Potala Palace and asked to make a film about ice skating, which Harrer had introduced to Tibet. ![]() ![]() In 1948, Harrer became a salaried official of the Tibetan government, translating foreign news and acting as the Court photographer. The author escaped from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his dramatic trek through rugged Himalayan passes to sanctuary in the Forbidden City of Lhasa. He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959). He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 - 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. 314, illus., map, weakness to rear board, pencil notation inside front flyleaf, DJ soiled and scuffed: small tears, edges worn. ![]()
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