Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrers 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The authors vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrers departure. A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.
Recommended!
Very interesting story. I don't climb and the book is not so much about climbing but more about what tibet was like back then before foreigners were allowed to travel into tibet.
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