Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer (July 6th 1912 - January 7th 2006) is a Austrian Alpiniste .
Harrer takes part in the Olympic Games of Berlin of 1936. It makes the first rise of the northern face of the Eiger in Suisse in company of Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek and Ludwig Vorg, the July 24th 1938, rise which it tells in its work The White Spider .
It accompanies success by the party Nazi in Austria and becomes member of the S. In March 1939, Austria becomes part of the Germany and with the release of the Second world war, Harrer then in the British Indies to prepare the rise of the Nanga Parbat - today with the Pakistan - is interned by the authorities. It succeeds in escaping in 1944 with Peter Aufschnaiter and takes refuge with the Tibet where it remains and becomes the friend of the young person Dalai Lama. It will make the description of this period of its life in two works: Seven years of adventure to the tibet and Lhassa, disappeared Tibet . In 1997, Jean-Jacques Annaud carries out a film based on these writings, in which Harrer is incarnated by Brad Pitt.
Harrer makes the first rise of the Mont Deborah in Alaska in 1954. In 1962, It leads the forwarding of four mountaineers which makes the first rise of the Pyramide Carstensz (Puncak Jayadikesuma), in Western New Guinea, the culminating point of the Oceania. It publishes of it the account in 1963 in the book I like from the stone old .
Heinrich Harrer is deceased the January 7th 2006 in Carinthie Bundesländ of Austria at the 93 years age.
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