Mountaineer and ex-Nazi dies aged 93

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who fled a British prisoner of war camp in India for the northern Himalayas, where he befriended and tutored the Dalai Lama, died today. He was 93.

Harrer’s family in the province of Carinthia did not mention a cause of death, saying only that “in great peace, he carried out his final expedition” when he died in a hospital in Friesach. His family said he would be buried on January 14 in the town of Huettenberg.