![]() ![]() What seemed to pull him, draw him to adventure: the speed skiing, the Andes, the Amazon, meeting headhunters in New Guinea, escaping from a prison camp? He did all this. Professor ORVILLE SCHELL (Dean, UC Berkeley School of Journalism): Pleasure. Professor Schell joins us from UC Berkeley School of Journalism, where he's dean. Orville Schell knew Heinrich Harrer and has written about his life. But the adventurer's exploits were also clouded by his association with the Nazis and the SS. During World War II, he escaped from a British prisoner of war camp, trekked across the Tibetan plateau and ended up as a tutor for the young Dalai Lama in Lhasa, a tale recounted in one of his many books, "Seven Years in Tibet." That book was a best-seller and later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. Harrer was an Olympic skier and champion golfer and explorer and mountain climber, and part of the team that made the first ascent on the Eiger's north wall in the Swiss Alps. ![]() Heinrich Harrer died last week in his native Austria. ![]()
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