Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Herzog

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French athlete Maurice Herzog.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Maurice André Raymond Herzog was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna 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, Annapurna.

French - Athlete | January 15, 1919 - December 13, 2012

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

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

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

The mountains were there and so was I.

Maurice Herzog

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