by Heinrich Harrer · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804453079
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«Sette anni nel Tibet» is Heinrich Harrer's autobiographical account, published by Mondadori in paperback (414 pages, in Italian).
In 1939, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer is chosen for an expedition to Nanga Parbat; after being interned and escaping several times, he manages to reach Tibet, where he stays for seven years. There he discovers an ancient culture, meets the Dalai Lama, whose teacher he becomes, and ends up one of his great defenders.
The edition belongs to Mondadori's I miti collection, with a translation by Guido Gentilli. The original title, Sieben Jahre in Tibet, was published in 1953.
For readers of travel, history and Tibetan culture, and for those approaching the work through Jean-Jacques Annaud's film starring Brad Pitt.
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and an SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938. Harrer and the team flew the Nazi flag atop the mountain. Harrer had joined the Nazi Party shortly after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, and was personally received by Hitler after the climb. A year later in 1939, he and the climbing team went on an expedition to the Indian Himalayas, where they were arrested by British colonial authorities due to the outbreak of World War II. He eventually escaped to Tibet, staying there until 1951. He is the author of two autobiographical books, Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959).
