by Heinrich Harrer · Círculo de Lectores, 1998, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422669944
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«Siete años en el Tíbet» is Heinrich Harrer's travelogue, published by Círculo de Lectores in 1998 in paperback (355 pages, in Spanish).
The author, caught by the outbreak of war during an expedition to the Himalayas, is interned in a concentration camp in India and manages to escape. He crosses Tibet to Lhasa, a city forbidden to foreigners, where he stays for seven years, learns its customs and religion, befriends the Dalai Lama, and witnesses the Chinese invasion.
The work was originally published in 1953 as «Sieben Jahre in Tibet»; this edition belongs to the Grandes Éxitos collection.
A work for readers interested in true adventure stories, Asian history, and Buddhist culture.
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).
