ANNAPURNA (316 pp.)Maurice HerzogDutton ($5).
"How wonderful life would now become! What an inconceivable experience it is to attain one's ideal and, at the very same moment, to fulfill oneself. I was stirred to the depths of my being. Never had I felt happiness like thisso intense and yet so pure."
Had Frenchman Maurice Herzog just discovered a fabulous drug to ease human suffering? Or had the girl of his dreams finally said yes? It was nothing so commonplace as either: Herzog and a companion had just climbed a mountain.
It was no ordinary...
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