Harrer, Heinrich

Chronicles Heinrich Harrer's first attempt to climb the north face of the Swiss Eiger mountain in 1938.

Beginning in 1939, two Austrian mountain climbers undertake a twenty-one-month trek across Tibet to its heartland as they flee imprisonment; includes vivid descriptions of country and culture. Forward by the Dalai Lama.

Austrian adventurer Heinrich Harrer tells about his return to northern India and Tibet to visit the people and places he left behind when he was forced to flee the Forbidden City of Lhasa thirty years earlier, and discusses the changes that have occurred in Tibet since it was invaded by the Chinese.

An account of an Austrian mountian climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.