KATHMANDU, Jan 31: FinePrint and the French Embassy in Nepal, has announced the completion of the Nepali translation of ...
On these subzero winter days, reading is sometimes wiser than going outdoors. A reflection of my age, no doubt. To ward off ...
The first man to climb an 8000m peak, French alpinist Maurice Herzog, died today aged 93, as reported by the French Mountaineering Federation. It was 14:00 on June 3, 1950 when Maurice Herzog and ...
But the honor of summiting one of these giant 8,000-meter mountains for the first time belongs to French climbers Louis Lachenal and Maurice Herzog in 1950, three years before Sir Edmund Hillary ...
Maurice Herzog invited Lachenal on his 1950 Himalayan expedition. The original objective of the French expedition was an unspecified 8,000'er. According to Adam Carter in the American Alpine ...