Maurice Herzog Quotes

France, Mountaineer
January 15, 1919 – December, 13, 2012.

Maurice Herzog (15 January 1919 – 13 December 2012) 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.

Also known as Administrator

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
- Mountain
- Natural
- Bread
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
- World
- Men
- Boundaries

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Maurice Herzog
- Men
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
- Together
- Wish
- Pain
'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

Maurice Herzog
- True
The mountains were there and so was I.

Maurice Herzog
- Mountain