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Annapurna, 1950: The warlike and deceitful account of the first ascent of an eight-thousander

Lachenal was no dog: he was the most respected, fastest, and brilliant mountaineer of the time. He was an accomplished high-altitude guide, while Herzog was merely an amateur with a mission: to narrate the conquest.
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