Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy soабюъаjourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation The author's vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditioавсчьns before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer's departure A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.