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.
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
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
All our dreams begin in youth. - Heinrich Harrer
All our dreams begin in youth.
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
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 …
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