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…

- Heinrich Harrer

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…

- 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 …

- Heinrich Harrer

All our dreams begin in youth.

- Heinrich Harrer

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men sk…

- Heinrich Harrer

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