Annapurna.(Brief Article)

World and I | July 1, 1998 | Copyright

ANNAPURNA Maurice Herzog, New York: Lyons Press, 314 pp., $16.95

Since the landing of man on the moon the earth's geography has lost something of its frightening majesty, and the scaling of a mountain has been reduced to a relatively paltry accomplishment. Prior to 1950, however, no 8,000-meter peak had ever been bested by man. The Himalayas, which contain all of the world's 8,000-meter peaks, were preserved from human intrusion by daunting glaciers, mile-high cliffs, obscure crevasses, frigid temperatures, unpredictable blizzards--and finally by the absence of such a ...

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