Citas de Maurice Herzog

• Para nosotros, las montañas habían sido un campo natural de actividad donde, jugando en las fronteras de la vida y la muerte, habíamos encontrado la libertad que buscábamos a tientas y que nos era tan necesaria como el pan.

  Maurice Herzog

  Climbing, Life And Death, Mountain

  Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.400, Open Road Media

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• The mountains were there and so was I.

  Maurice Herzog

  Hiking, Mountain, Mountain Climbing

  1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).

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• 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

  Men, Touching, World

  Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Pain, Climbing, Joy

  Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media

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