![]() ![]() And now there was Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter and their story of adventures beyond imagination. Tibet then was the mysterious, forbidden country in the Himalayas that no foreigner had seen before except for a few British diplomats and very few explorers like Sven Hedin who had never been able to enter Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. And believe it or not, maps on paper showed a lot of white space, marked as "unexplored". But it was still a long way to go before the earth could be viewed from above, let alone being accessible for everyone by Google Maps™ with a few mouse clicks. The first satellite had been launched by the Russians in 1957. The world was different then in the 1950s and early 1960s. I remember how much I was fascinated with Heinrich Harrer's book Seven Years in Tibet as a young boy. In 1997 a popular film was produced with Brad Pitt playing Heinrich Harrer under the direction of Jean-Jacques Annaud. Seven Years in Tibet is the title of a book written by Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and adventurer about an incredible but true story of spending seven years in the then forbidden country of Tibet from 1944 until 1951. ![]()
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