First on Annapurna: Herzog and Lachenal Summit the Peak
Two climbers stood on top of the world's tenth-highest mountain and immediately started dying. Maurice Herzog lost his gloves near Annapurna's 8,091-meter summit — a careless moment that cost him all his fingers and toes to frostbite. Louis Lachenal lost his too. The descent was brutal: avalanches, snow blindness, improvised surgeries on the mountain. Herzog spent months having gangrenous digits amputated piece by piece. But here's what sticks — they'd succeeded where every Everest attempt had failed. No Eight-thousander had ever been climbed. They didn't summit it cleanly. They survived it barely.
June 3, 1950
76 years ago
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