by Heinrich Harrer · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447313556
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«Siete años en el Tíbet» is the autobiographical account of Austrian explorer Heinrich Harrer, published by RBA in hardcover (218 pages, in Spanish).
Heinrich Harrer escapes from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India and manages to reach Lhasa in 1946, a city forbidden to foreigners. For seven years he lives with Tibetan culture, befriends the young Dalai Lama, whom he teaches, and witnesses the Chinese invasion. A travel narrative and historical memoir of an isolated world.
Part of the RBA Grandes Éxitos collection. Translated by María Teresa Monguió; original title: Sieben Jahre in Tibet.
For readers of travel literature and historical memoirs, with an interest in Tibetan 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).
