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Heinrich Harrer

1912 - 2006

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Heinrich Harrer (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and briefly SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938. Harrer and the team flew the Nazi flag atop the mountain. Harrer had joined the Nazi Party shortly after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, and was personally received by Hitler after the climb. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Harrer is the 4th most popular mountaineer, the 135th most popular biography from Austria (down from 97th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Mountaineer.

Heinrich Harrer is most famous for being the author of Seven Years in Tibet, which was published in 1953. In the book, Harrer tells the story of his escape from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India during World War II and his subsequent journey to Tibet.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Heinrich Harrer ranks 4 out of 56. Before him are Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, and Reinhold Messner. After him are Andrew Irvine, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, George Mallory, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Jerzy Kukuczka, Jacques Balmat, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Heinrich Harrer ranks 26. Before him are Jorge Amado, Gene Kelly, Konrad Emil Bloch, Alois Brunner, Chuck Jones, and Ghazi of Iraq. After him are B. D. Jatti, Hanna Reitsch, Glenn T. Seaborg, Maria Mandl, Roy Sullivan, and Sergiu Celibidache. Among people deceased in 2006, Heinrich Harrer ranks 21. Before him are György Ligeti, Philippe Noiret, Choi Kyu-hah, Mako, Desmond Doss, and Johannes Rau. After him are Oriana Fallaci, Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, Anna Politkovskaya, Melvin Schwartz, and Lennart Meri.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Heinrich Harrer ranks 135 out of 1,424. Before him are Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Josef Breuer (1842), Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742), Georg Trakl (1887), Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (1760), and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874). After him are Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Maria Josepha of Austria (1699), Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1745), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928), Klaus Ebner (1964), and Walther von der Vogelweide (1170).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Austria

Among mountaineers born in Austria, Heinrich Harrer ranks 1. After him are Hermann Buhl (1924), Kurt Diemberger (1932), Peter Habeler (1942), Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (1970), and David Lama (1990).

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