Heinrich Harrer, Austrian geographer and mountaineer (died 2006)

Heinrich Harrer

Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)

Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and briefly an 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…