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Mountaineer Heinrich Harrer dies at 93

8 janvier 2006, 20:00

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Mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (here with the Dalai Lama in Graz in 2002) died on Saturday aged 93, Austrian officials said in a statement. This Austrian, whose life was portrayed in his book and the film ?Seven Years in Tibet? was the first person to climb the north face of Switzerland?s Eiger mountain in 1938, but won world renown after his book, the film version of which was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starred Brad Pitt.

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