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In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,

Maurice Herzog

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.

Maurice Herzog

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.

Maurice Herzog

Maurice Herzog

Maurice Herzog

Born: January 15, 1919

Died: December 13, 2012 (aged 93)

Bio: 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.

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