The doctor was Jacques Oudot [fr] and the interpreter and transport officer Francis de Noyelle [fr], a diplomat. To avoid the entrance to the gorge, the party climbed to the ridge of the Nilgiris from where they could see the ravine below was indeed impassable. [138], The same year Michel Guérin of Éditions Guérin [fr], the mountaineering publisher, published an unexpurgated version of Lachenal's diary, also including the "Commentaires", under the same title Carnets du vertige. The 1920s Survey of India map they were using (see left-hand Annapurna map below) showed a path leading up the gorge and over "Tilicho Pass" that might provide a route to the north face of Annapurna. [142] Back in 1956 the text Gérard Herzog had excluded was about matters he considered too unpleasant for publication such as the climbers being offered young girls for sex and, when this was refused, being offered young boys instead. Rébuffat's wife said her husband had never doubted they had got there. All Rights Reserved. The high point of the massif, Annapurna I, is 179 km (111 miles) north-west of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu. Before moonrise, the only reference of movement and progress is the twinkling headlamps above and below you and the dim, static stars above. [note 23] He became the first international mountaineering celebrity after George Mallory and went on to be a successful politician. After about 6 hours of climbing above C3, I strolled in to our C4 fresh and ready to tackle the mountain. On the mountain the climbers were taking both sleeping pills and stimulants (. Herzog wrote a best-selling book Annapurna full of vivid descriptions of heroic endeavour and anguished suffering – but which much later was criticised for being too self-serving. Check out some of the package related blogs before going on a trip. If anyone else wants to grab the videos and put them an interactive viewer, you have my permission to do so. What I can do this time is link to still photos in the Google Photo’s interactive viewer so you can pan around the stills like you would view them in a VR viewer. [145], Le Figaro described it as a meditation rather than a biography, "a witty and modest account". [20] They took 3.5 tons of supplies which included ropes and outer clothing of nylon, down-filled jackets and felt-lined leather boots with rubber soles – all innovative equipment. An accomplishment about 200 people can … It was more formally known as the "French Himalayan Expedition 1950", Nepal did not have the abject poverty of parts of Delhi which Terray characterised as being like Auschwitz. Minor comments had also been edited: "Evening, the eternal chicken and potatoes" had been removed while "We opened a bottle of white wine" had been kept. [18] The Maharajah of Nepal appointed G.B. [70][note 17] After about an hour on the summit, not waiting for Herzog in his euphoric state to load another roll of film, Lachenal set off back down at a furious pace. Terray estimated the heaviest porter would not have had a body weight of over 80 kilograms. [4], Alpine mountaineering was immensely popular in France – the Fédération Française des clubs alpins et de montagne had 31,000 members in 1950 – and the top mountaineers were second only to footballers in their celebrity.

[note 20] On 7 June everyone started descending again with Herzog, Lachenal and Rébuffat lying on sledges. The first ascent of Annapurna by the 7.5 km long East Ridge was completed on October 24, 1984 by Swiss climbers Norbert Joos and Erhard Loretan. He said Herzog's brother had helped Lachenal because he was incapable of writing, that Lachenal was very happy with the rewrite and that Lachenal's son had made up the story about the draft being distorted. What I wasn’t aware of was how, equally, tough the trip up to C4 would be on April 30th. In the American Alpine Journal: "I am sorry we have had to wait so long for the true story. Libération deplored its name-dropping[note 28] and Pierre Mazeaud in Le Faucigny said "I succeeded in getting to page 16. However, none of the local inhabitants they spoke to knew of a path or had any further information. He asked Herzog what he would do if he did turn back and Herzog replied that he would go on up alone.

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