Maurice Herzog
Maurice Herzog
Maurice Herzog was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the expedition that first climbed a peak over 8000m, Annapurna, in 1950, and reached the summit with Louis Lachenal. Upon his return, he wrote a best-selling book about the expedition...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth15 January 1919
CountryFrance
lives men
There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.
men touching world
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.
pain climbing joy
Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.
hiking mountain mountain-climbing
The mountains were there and so was I.
climbing life-and-death mountain
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.