One of the great works of mountaineering literature- long out of print and now reissued with a new introduction by Joe Simpson.
The distinguished French mountaineer Maurice Herzog was leader of the 1950 expedition to Annapurna. He was one of the two climbers to reach the summit.
'A classic of its kind... His vivid, high powered but never
overdramatised account of the ascent still reads splendidly'
*The Irish Times*
After being swept off his feet by an avalanche and left dangling by
a rope around his neck, Herzog 'began to pass water, violently and
uncontrollably'. Your reaction may be only slightly less extreme as
you move from one nail-biting moment to the next in this wonderful
1952 tale of triumph and frostbite.
*Outside*
Quite simply the greatest mountaineering book ever written.
*Joe Simpson, from the Introduction*
The climb took place before the Himalayas were a tourist attraction
and before Gore-Tex cold-weather gear was available in Marks &
Spencer. They had no oxygen, little food and on the descent Herzog
lost his gloves, got trapped in a storm, was buried in an avalanche
and became frostbitten. His descriptions don't stint on the details
of maggot-ridden flesh and amputations without anaesthesia
*Richard Eyre*
Those who have never seen the Himalayas...will know that they have
been a companion of greatness
*New York Times Book Review*
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