ANNAPURNA (316 pp.)—Maurice Herzog—Dutton ($5). “How wonderful life would now become! What an inconceivable experience it is to attain one’s ideal and, at the very same moment, to fulfill oneself. I ...

FILE - A March 11, 1950 photo from files showing Maurice Herzog, of Paris, who will lead a French mountain climbing expedition in the Himalayas this spring, talking with reporters as he describes the ...

PARIS -- France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit -- the first man to climb an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite, a man who later went on ...

‘There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.’ That is the famous last sentence in French climber Maurice Herzog’s adventure classic, Annapurna, published after his expedition's first ascent of an ...

Nepal on Monday unveiled a statue of French climber Maurice Herzog, the first to summit the world's 10th highest mountain Annapurna, calling it a symbol of the "indomitable human spirit". The Barron's ...

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PARIS - France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit - the first man to conquer an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite. Six decades after his ...

PARIS (AP) — France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit — the first man to climb an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite, a man who later went ...