Heinrich Harrer Professions : Mountaineer Born : July 6, 1912 Died : January 7, 2006 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Heinrich Harrer In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa. Heinrich Harrer kings war country Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world. Heinrich Harrer wings people thinking We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good. Heinrich Harrer karma seven-years inspirational The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range. Heinrich Harrer sunshine running country My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction. Heinrich Harrer climbing self men All our dreams begin in youth. Heinrich Harrer our-dreams youth dream Similar Authors Bradford Washburn mountaineer Armand Charlet mountaineer Arlene Blum mountaineer Annie Smith Peck mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev mountaineer Doug Scott mountaineer All Authors
