Heinrich Harrer: Out of Austria, into Tibet

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Orville Schell tells NPR’s Sheilah Kast about Heinrich Harrer’s life, in Out of Austria, into Tibet:

Austrian mountaineering legend Heinrich Harrer is dead at 93. He was a pioneering climber, an Olympic skier, a tutor to the Dalai Lama… and a member of Hitler’s SS. He was the subject of the film Seven Years in Tibet.

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