The mountains were there and so was I. Maurice Herzog More Quotes by Maurice Herzog More Quotes From 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 climbing mountain life-and-death 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 touching men world 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 climbing pain joy There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. Maurice Herzog lives other men 'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel. Maurice Herzog sort true novel