Boyhood dream -- Miracle on the white spider -- To the Himalaya -- Behind barbed wire -- Escape -- The village of happiness -- In the no-man's land of the Changtang -- The :forbidden city" of Lhasa -- An audience with the Dalai Lama -- Farewell to Tibet -- Kalimpong -- Return to Europe -- To the source of the Amazon -- On the lecture circuit -- Alaska -- Eternal ice at the equator -- Carstenz pyramid and the fall in a New Guinea Waterfall -- Back to the stone age -- The Indians of the Xingu River -- King Leopold of Belgium -- Malaria -- The warriors of the Hadendoa -- In the realm of the ancestors -- The last few hundred -- The dark continent -- Of man and beast -- Family adventures -- The many sources of the Ganges -- The other "roof of the world" -- Return to Tibet -- In the land of the thunder dragon -- Ladakh-little Tibet -- Encounters -- Homecoming -- Chronology of important expeditions and trips

1. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Discovery and exploration -- Austrian
2. Harrer
3. Heinrich
4. 1912-2006 -- Travel -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
5. Tibet -- Description and travel