The boards are the original black with a red spine and a outline of Lhasa in gilt to front board, Titles in gilt to spine. After several attempts at the Nanga Parbat, Aufschnaiter led a small four-man expedition in 1939, including Heinrich Harrer, to the Diamir Face with the aim of finding an easier route to the peak. After Sattler had given up on 10 May, the remaining four entered Tibet crossing the Tsang Chok-la Pass (5,896 metres) on 17 May 1944 and thereafter split into two groups: Harrer and Kopp, Aufschnaiter and Treipel. In 1939, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer leaves behind his pregnant wife to join Peter Aufschnaiter in a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in British-ruled India (now part of Pakistan).

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But the man never talks about his past, he never talks about his roots, he never talks about his family, he never talks about his Germany. I would never have believed it, but though everyone moaned and hankered to play again, they respected the prohibition. The spiritual leader was only 11 when he first got acquainted with Harrer, who eventually became his tutor and confidant.

In February 1962, he was the leader of the team of four climbers who made the first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid (4,884 m, 16,024ft; later named Puncak Jaya) on Papua, Indonesia (then Dutch New Guinea), the highest peak in Oceania and one of the Seven Summits. In October 2002, the Dalai Lama presented Harrer with the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth Award for his efforts to bring the situation in Tibet to international attention. After the film was released, the director confirmed that two crews secretly shot about 20 minutes of footage for the movie in Tibet.

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He eventually obtained a Nepalese passport which allowed him access to many restricted remote areas and he discovered valuable early Buddhist frescos. American Edition in unclipped Pictorial Dust Jacket, DJ has some edge wear and is now in a protective wrapper. Is there any people so uniformly attached to their religion and so obedient to it in their daily life? First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and numerous plates in monochrome, light tape-marks on paste-downs; navy cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter crudely reinforced at inner edges.

A little fading to the publisher's top edge stain, and a little spotting to the edges and endpapers. In 1930s British India, Harrer and fellow-Austrian Peter Aufschnaiter are on an expedition to climb Nanga Parbat when WW II breaks out.