Heinrich Harrer: Out of Austria, into Tibet [6min]
Austrian mountaineering legend Heinrich Harrer is dead at 93. He was a pioneering climber, an Olympic skier, a tutor to the Dalai Lama... and a member of Hitler's SS. He was the subject of the film Seven Years in Tibet. Orville Schell tells Sheilah Kast about Harrer's life.
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