by Heinrich Harrer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782700311532
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«Sept ans d'aventures au Tibet» is the autobiographical account by Heinrich Harrer, published by Arthaud in paperback (287 pages, in French).
Autobiographical account by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer: it narrates his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in India, his journey across the Himalayas and his stay in Lhasa during and after World War II. There he meets the Dalai Lama, becomes friends with him and eventually serves as his tutor, while describing Tibetan culture and society.
Work originally published in 1953 as «Sieben Jahre in Tibet». This French edition by Arthaud, published in 1998, is an expanded version with an epilogue.
Recommended for readers interested in travel accounts, the history of Tibet and adventure memoirs.
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).
