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Maurice Herzog Quotes

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.

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

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).

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

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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