Comic strip adventure hero Tintin and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have been honoured by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. "We never thought that this story of friendship would have a resonance more than 40 years later" says Fanny Rodwell from the Herge Foundation.

The book Tintin in Tibet was published in the same year that the Dalai Lama fled the Himalayan kingdom.

Tin Tin is available now on DVD from Madman .