Monthly Archives: March 2016

Discovering the Cultural Identity of Tibet From European Standpoint

The incredible, historic, and adventurous tale of Seven Years in Tibet showed one of the last intact and pure indigenous cultures left in the world. Contrary to previous expeditions, mapping quests, and escaping, this POW truly saw untainted Tibet for the first time from a European perspective. This POW was able to observe and record while still…

Seven Years in Tibet

The uncharted territory that is described in Heinrich Harrer’s Seven Years in Tibet aids provides a backdrop that adds to an incredible adventure tale but also provides a view into the mind and soul of the mountaineer at the time. This “window to the soul” provides the reader with a better picture of what the…

Week 8

          Seven Years in Tibet at the very least can be said is off the beaten path of this course. Talking about Tibet in anyway invokes the images of mountains and of the Dalai Lama – both prime subjects of this book. To Harrier mountains are seen as a luxury as…

Seven Years in Tibet

If Heinrich Harrer wasn’t my favorite mountaineer because of The White Spider, he definitely is now since Seven Years in Tibet. Harrer opened my eyes to the sheer grit that a mountaineer must have to live the life of an alpinist. In the White Spider, I was impressed at their lack of sleep on the…