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Date: 02/11/1899
On 2 November 1899, Peter Aufschnaiter, a surveyor and mountaineer, was born in Kitzbühel, Austria. In 1939, he led a reconnaissance expedition with Heinrich Harrer to the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat (8,126 m). Interned in India at the outbreak of the war, he escaped in 1944 with Harrer and reached Lhasa in January 1946; there he worked as a surveyor and engineer for the Tibetan government until 1950. He died in Innsbruck in 1973.
Heinrich Harrer