by Heinrich Harrer · Editorial Juventud, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426155382
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«Siete años en el Tíbet» is the autobiographical travel and adventure account by Heinrich Harrer, published by Editorial Juventud in paperback.
After escaping a British prisoner camp in India, Harrer crosses the Himalayas and reaches Lhasa, where he stays for seven years and befriends the young Dalai Lama, whom he comes to mentor. The book describes life in Tibet, its monasteries, and the world that the Chinese invasion was about to change.
Account originally published in 1953; this 8th edition, from 1994, belongs to the collection «En el mar y la montaña».
For readers interested in adventure biographies, travel accounts, and the history of Tibet.
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).
