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    Heinrich Harrer (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and SS...
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  • is based on Austrian mountaineer and Schutzstaffel (SS) sergeant Heinrich Harrer's 1952 memoir of the same name, about his experiences in Tibet between...
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    geographer and cartographer. His experiences with fellow climber Heinrich Harrer during World War II were depicted in the 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet...
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    1964; original title: Die Weisse Spinne) is a non-fiction book by Heinrich Harrer that describes the first successful ascent of the infamous north face...
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  • autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer and Nazi SS sergeant Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during...
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    Award nomination in the same category. He followed it with the role of Heinrich Harrer in the biopic Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and as Death in Meet Joe...
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    Ludwig Vörg, Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek in a German–Austrian party. The party had originally consisted of two independent teams: Harrer (who did not...
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    critical failure. Later that year, he led as Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean-Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet. Pitt trained...
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  • Harrer is a German surname. It commonly refers to Heinrich Harrer (1912–2006), Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and writer. Other notable...
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    in Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible and portrayed the wife of Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt) in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Seven Years in Tibet...
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    halfway between Rakhiot Peak and Nanga Parbat summit, was reached. Heinrich Harrer, an expert mountaineer, was a member of the SS Alpine unit. The unit...
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  • Norbu; Harrer, Heinrich (1961). Tibet is my country: the autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, brother of the Dalai Lama, as told to Heinrich Harrer Thubten...
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    English translation of Austrian mountaineer and Nazi SS sergeant Heinrich Harrer's Seven Years in Tibet (originally published in German in the 1940s);...
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    Autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, Brother of the Dalai Lama as told to Heinrich Harrer, p. 121. First published in German in 1960. English translation by...
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  • October 1911 – 22 June 1941) was a notable German mountaineer. With Heinrich Harrer, Fritz Kasparek, and Anderl Heckmair, he successfully climbed the north...
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    his memoirs about his life in Tibet in the 1940s, Austrian writer Heinrich Harrer reports encountering nomads practising polyandry: "We were astonished...
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    Autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, Brother of the Dalai Lama as told to Heinrich Harrer. Edward Fitzgerald (trans.). Wisdom Publications. p. 163. ISBN 0-86171-045-2...
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    many nationalities in our home.". In 1954, the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who had the opportunity of speaking to Dzasa Kunsangtse, one of the...
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    14 when he read The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer, about the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger by Harrer with Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek...
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    director Peter Aufschnaiter (1899–1973), mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet) Karl Blodig (1859–1956), mountaineer (first...
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  • Roskelley Peter Aufschnaiter (1899–1973), mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet) Karl Blodig (1859–1956), mountaineer (first...
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  • His daring escape from a camp at Dehradun in 1944 with mountaineer Heinrich Harrer is documented in Magener's memoir, Prisoner's Bluff. After the war...
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    would in 1938 marry the famous Austrian mountaineer and adventurer Heinrich Harrer, while in 1939, Käte married Siegfried Uiberreither, Austrian Nazi...
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    surrounded by coral reefs and has a tropical climate. A 1977 report by Heinrich Harrer described a man as 1.60 metres (5 ft 3 in) tall, possibly because of...
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  • Helena Blavatsky Fritjof Capra Leonard Cohen Alexandra David-Néel Heinrich Harrer Hermann Hesse Carl Jung Jon Kabat-Zinn Friedrich Nietzsche Henry Steel...
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    Carstensz Expedition called it the "Second Peak of the North Wall". Heinrich Harrer labeled it Ngapalu on his map drawn in 1962, while calling the SE peak...
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    climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, New Zealand mountaineer Philip Temple, Australian rock climber Russell...
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    also sees far less traffic than its larger neighbor. Fred Beckey, Heinrich Harrer, and Henry Meybohm completed the first ascent in 1954, via the long...
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  • without antiseptics or sterile dressings". Former Nazi Party member Heinrich Harrer, who lived in Tibet at the same time (1944 to 1951), wrote in his book...
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    Geoffrey Bull, and George Patterson; Austrians Peter Aufschnaiter and Heinrich Harrer; and the Russian Nedbailoff. The army, in particular, had Japanese...
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