Annapurna, first conquest of an 8000-meter peak : (26,493 feet)
Annapurna
/ by Maurice Herzog ; translated from the French by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith ; cartographic and photographic documentation by Marcel Ichac ; with an introduction by Eric Shipton
- New York, N.Y. : Lyons & Burford, Publishers , c1997.
- 314 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Dutton, c1952.
Z99 grit and courage members of the French Alpine Club face frostbite snow blindness and near death to reach the summit of the uncharted 26493-foot Himalayan peak Annapurna