Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) still a boy, and becomes one of his tutors. During their time together, Heinrich becomes a close friend to the young spiritual leader. Harrer and Aufschnaiter stay in the country until the Chinese military campaign in 1950. In 1938, Austrian mountaineers Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) leaves behind his pregnant wife to join Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) in a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in British India (present-day part of Pakistan). When World War II begins in 1939, they are arrested by British Indian authorities and imprisoned in a POW camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the present-day Indian state
Sumeru Parbat and made a futile try to reach the summit. A British team also made an unsuccessful attempt through the Ghanohim glacier in the early 1990s. Sumeru Parbat Sumeru Parbat is a mountain in the Gangotri Glacier region of Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India. This mountain is high. It is encircled by Kedarnath & Kedardome in the north, Kharchakund in the west & Mandani and Yanbuk in the south. It is one of the most difficult and less attempted peaks of the region. The peak has only been ascended successfully once, in 1984 by a team from Siliguri (NBEC) under the leadership