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Seven Years In Tibet

The story of the Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer, who lived in the forbidden land of Tibet in the 1940s and 50s.

In 1944, two Austrian mountaineers fled into the forbidden land of Tibet to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in India. Heinrich Harrer and his friend Peter Aufschnaiter spent seven years as guests of the Tibetans, gaining a unique perspective on a way-of-life that was about to disappear. Harrer became the young Dalai Lama's tutor and later wrote a famous account of his visit called Seven Years in Tibet.

PHOTO: The Dalai Lama in the 1930s (Getty Images)

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Mon 15 Feb 2016 08:50GMT

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