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    Category Mountaineering
    Author Herzog, Maurice, (translated by Nea Morin & Janet Adam Smith), Introduction by Eric Shipton
    Title ANNAPURNA: Conquest of the First 8,000 metre Peak (26,493 feet)
    Publishing Information Oxford: Jonathan Cape, 1952.
    Description 4th impression 1952: 288 pages, illustrated, colour frontispiece, 26 b/w photos, 9 maps (1 folding on back of folding panorama). Original covers in dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket nibbled with small pieces missing, covers sunned where dust jacket missing, contents clean. The author was the leader of the 1950 French Himalayan Expedition. This is Herzog's first book, written from hospital, where he spent 3 years recouperating after his Annapurna adventure. Herzog was the leader of the French Himalayan expedition, which was the first in history to scale an 8,000 meter peak. He made the climb without oxygen but lost several of his fingers, which had to be amputated without anesthetic. It is a plain and truthful account of what happened with all the suffering, hopes and joys. The folding map of the North Annapurna Glacier shows the routes taken. (Neate H74: One of the great landmarks in mountaineering, breaking a psychological barrier, not unlike the first 4 minute mile)
    Price £7.50
    Keywords qpolarq, climbing, montaineering, expedition, travel S1-Mou
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