Maurice Herzog (1919-2012) was one of the foremost mountaineers in history. He gained international fame in 1950 as the leader of the expedition that summited Annapurna I, the first eight-thousand-meter peak ever climbed by man. He is the author of Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak.
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