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    Maurice André Raymond Herzog (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis ɑ̃dʁe ʁemɔ̃ ɛʁzɔɡ]; 15 January 1919 – 13 December 2012) was a French mountaineer and administrator...
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    is well known for the difficulty and danger involved in its ascent. Maurice Herzog led a French expedition to its summit through the north face in 1950...
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  • Katia and Maurice Krafft is a 2022 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. The film is a tribute to the French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft...
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  • The 1950 French Annapurna expedition, led by Maurice Herzog, reached the summit of Annapurna I at 8,091 metres (26,545 ft), the highest peak in the Annapurna...
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  • First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak (1951) is a book by French climber Maurice Herzog, leader of the 1950 French Annapurna expedition, the first expedition...
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    mountain in the world at 8,091 metres (26,545 ft) above sea level. Maurice Herzog led a French expedition to its summit through the north face in 1950...
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  • politician Martin H. Herzog, (1878–1971), American politician Maurice Herzog (1919–2012), French mountaineer and politician Robert Herzog (1823–1886), Polish...
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  • On 3 June 1950 on the 1950 French Annapurna expedition, along with Maurice Herzog, he reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at a height of 8,091...
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    Lachenal, broke previous climbing speed records. Terray was a member of Maurice Herzog's 1950 expedition to the Nepalese Himalayan peak, Annapurna, the highest...
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    successful ascent of an eight-thousander was by the French climbers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, who reached the summit of Annapurna on 3 June 1950...
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    Manaslu. 1950 – Dhaulagiri I reconnoitered by a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog. They do not see a feasible route and switch to Annapurna, where they...
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    Werner Herzog (born 1942) is a German filmmaker whose films often feature ambitious or deranged protagonists with impossible dreams. Herzog's works span...
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    Europeans in 1950 by members of the 1950 French Annapurna expedition led by Maurice Herzog who were attempting to find Annapurna I. Lake Tilicho is located on...
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    and the tenth-highest peak in the world. The expedition was led by Maurice Herzog and also included French mountaineers Louis Lachenal and Lionel Terray...
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  • Into the Inferno (film) (category Films directed by Werner Herzog)
    Into the Inferno is a 2016 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. In it, Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer explore active volcanoes around...
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  •  – professional cyclist Ludovic Giuly (born 1976) – football player Maurice Herzog (1919–2012) – mountaineer Anthoine Hubert (1996–2019) – racing driver...
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    New Year decoration class also honouring Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Maurice Herzog and Salma Hayek. She has been a supporter of the charity SOS Children's...
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  • 1978". American Alpine Journal: 345–347. Blum, Arlene; foreword by Maurice Herzog (1998). Annapurna, a woman's place (20th anniversary ed.). San Francisco:...
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    eight-thousanders but two had been climbed starting with Annapurna in 1950 by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal on the 1950 French Annapurna expedition. The highest...
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    that time. It was only in 1950 that a higher summit was reached when Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal climbed Annapurna. Nanda Devi itself was climbed...
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    soloist in Britain and America; died unroped on the Steck-Salathé Route Maurice Herzog (1919–2012) France, leader of the 1950 French Annapurna expedition,...
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    two documentary films by Werner Herzog, Into the Inferno (2016) and The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), and a further film...
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    Education, Youth Affairs and Sports): 1 February 1956 – 14 May 1958 Maurice Herzog (High-commissar of Youth and Sports) 27 September 1958 – 8 January 1966...
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  • to mountaineers who lost their lives along the path to museum hall Maurice Herzog Climbing Wall located at the museum A taxidermied Nepal leopard List...
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    were some of France's foremost mountaineers including Lionel Terray, Maurice Herzog, Jacques Boell and Honoré Bonnet. However the overall level of training...
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  • French Alpine Club's 1950 expedition that climbed Annapurna led by Maurice Herzog, which included climbing luminaries Lionel Terray, Louis Lachenal and...
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  • officials from the UCI and by the French sports minister, the mountaineer Maurice Herzog. Riders were checked for signs of injections, which 13 had, and were...
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    from 1944 to 1993. His father-in-law was Eugène Schneider II, while Maurice Herzog was his son-in-law. He was born in 1900 in Paris, France. His father...
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  • Minister of Serbia Milojko Spajić (MBA), Prime Minister of Montenegro Maurice Herzog (class of 1944), French Secretary of State of Youth and Sports Hervé...
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    Gérard Devouassoux was elected first deputy mayor of Chamonix, under Maurice Herzog. Shocked by the increase in mountain accidents, Pierre Mazeaud, a prominent...
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