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Wes F
Nov 10, 2019 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
I enjoyed this account of the first successful climb on an 8,000 meter peak, accomplished back in 1950 by a team of French climbers (from Chamonix, no surprise). The book did drag some and could have been less bloated--and the style of writing could have been more engaging; some of this was due to the long descriptions of the climbing team's search for the proper route that would bring them to Annapurna's peak. What got especially interesting was the last 1/3 of the book--recounting the descent ...more
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