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Maurice Herzog

Maurice Herzog

1919 - 2012

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PARIS (AP) - France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit - the first man to climb an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite, a man who later went on to scale the heights of French politics. Six decades after his 1950 Annapurna climb made...

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