1946 Old Tibet Photo Hale was taken in the “Seven Years of Tibet”

Heinrich• Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer, and Peter· Peter Aufschnaiter fled to Lhasa together and lived there for seven years. During this time, he took many old photos of Tibet

After leaving Lhasa, he became world-famous for his book Seven Years in Tibet. In 1997, Hollywood made a film of the same name based on this book, Brad· Brad Pitt played him. In 2006, at the age of 93, Hale died

Heinrich• Hale was originally a German Nazi. In November 1942, the head of Gestapo, Himmler, proposed to send people to Tibet to look for Shambala Cave. So Heinrich&bull was dispatched in January 1943; The five member expedition team, including Hale, set out from Berlin and embarked on a desperate journey to Tibet. However, the entire team was arrested and imprisoned in British India in May. No one knew the whole story, but these SS elements managed to escape quickly and arrived in Tibet at the end of the year. What happened after that is still a mystery. Later, he got to know a big monk. In 1951, Hale left Lhasa and returned to Austria after he finished teaching English in the big monk’s palace

The following photos were taken by him during this period:

美丽的布达拉宫

某大和尚的姐姐及母亲