by Maurice Herzog · Random Century Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781845951597
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«Annapurna India Only» is Maurice Herzog's mountaineering account, in paperback, published by Random Century Group (272 pages, in English).
In 1950, Maurice Herzog leads a French expedition that achieves the first ascent of an 8,000-metre peak, Annapurna. Herzog narrates the search for an uncharted route, the assault on the summit, and a descent marked by avalanches, cold and frostbite, and his account became a mountaineering classic.
The work originally appeared in 1951; this 2009 edition includes an introduction by Joe Simpson and 16 pages of photographs.
For enthusiasts of alpinism and historical accounts of real expeditions.
Maurice André Raymond Herzog was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna 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, Annapurna.
