Maurice Herzog
Maurice Herzog
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. Upon his return, he wrote a best-selling book about the expedition...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth15 January 1919
CountryFrance
Maurice Herzog quotes about
lives men
There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.
hiking mountain mountain-climbing
The mountains were there and so was I.