Heinrich Harrer was born in 1912 in Carinthia. His skiing prowess won him a place in the 1936 Austrian Olympic team. He was part of the team that first scaled the notorious North Face of the Eiger in 1938, an adventure recounted in his book The White Spider. He died in 2006.
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Rohit Manchanda spent his childhood in the coalfields of Jharkhand and did his doctorate from…
Prakash Patra began his career as a journalist in 1980 and has worked with National…
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya is an animation director based in Kolkata. He co-directed the award-winning animated short…