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

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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.

climbing mountain life-and-death

The mountains were there and so was I. by Maurice Herzog

The mountains were there and so was I.

mountain-climbing mountain hiking

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

touching men world

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. by Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

lives other men

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel. by Maurice Herzog

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

sort true novel