by Heinrich Harrer · Ullstein-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Zweigniederlassung de · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548230955
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«Seven Years in Tibet» is the autobiographical account by Heinrich Harrer, published by Ullstein-Taschenbuch-Verlag in paperback (442 pages, in German).
After escaping from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India, mountaineer Heinrich Harrer crosses the Himalayas to Lhasa, where he befriends the Dalai Lama and eventually becomes his tutor. The account portrays Tibetan culture, life in the Potala Palace, and the political climate preceding the Chinese invasion of 1950.
Work originally published in 1953; the cover of this edition bears the title «Sieben Jahre in Tibet» and the subtitle «Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama».
Work of interest to readers of travel memoirs, Tibetan history, and Tibetan Buddhism.
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).
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