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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Harrer has received more than 2,365,832 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Heinrich Harrer is the 4th most popular mountaineer, the 97th most popular biography from Austria (down from 78th 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 56Before him are Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner, and Tenzing Norgay. After him are George Mallory, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Junko Tabei, Jerzy Kukuczka, Edward Whymper, Hermann Buhl, Jacques Balmat, and Walter Bonatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Heinrich Harrer ranks 18Before him are Millvina Dean, Raoul Wallenberg, Jorge Amado, Alfredo Stroessner, John Cage, and Khalid of Saudi Arabia. After him are Clara Petacci, Carlo Ponti, Chuck Jones, Hanna Reitsch, Gene Kelly, and Adolf Galland. Among people deceased in 2006, Heinrich Harrer ranks 16Before him are Philippe Noiret, Syd Barrett, Oriana Fallaci, Alfredo Stroessner, Saparmurat Niyazov, and Owen Chamberlain. After him are György Ligeti, Mako, Anna Politkovskaya, Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, and Paul Mauriat.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Heinrich Harrer ranks 97 out of 1,424Before him are Theodoric the Great (454), Charles II, Archduke of Austria (1540), Maximilian Schell (1930), Józef Poniatowski (1763), Milutin Milanković (1879), and Fritz Pregl (1869). After him are Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738), Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742), Maria von Trapp (1905), Josef Breuer (1842), and Saint Florian (250).

Among MOUNTAINEERS In Austria

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