Heinrich harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first europeans ever to enter tibet. Harrer was traveling in india when the second world war erupted. Aug 20, 2009 seven years in tibet by heinrich harrer, 9781585427437, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. In seven years in tibet brad pitt stars as heinrich harrer, a cocky and egocentric austrian mountaineer whose thirst for fame leads him to abandon his pregnant wife in order to join a 1939 expedition to climb nanga parbat, one of the highest peaks of the himalayas. Yet harrer continued his friendship with the dalai lama, who we all know today as a genial smiling monk in exile from tibet since the invasion in 1951 until harrers death in 2006 at 92.
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