Home > Work > Annapurna

Annapurna QUOTES

Annapurna QUOTES

1 " Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins.

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

2 " I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the mountains. There was something unnatural in the way I saw Lachenal and everything around us. I smiled to myself at the paltriness of our efforts, for I could stand apart and watch myself making these efforts. But all sense of exertion was gone, as though there were no longer any gravity. This diaphanous landscape, this quintessence of purity--these were not the mountains I knew: they were the mountains of my dreams (pp.206-207). "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

3 " The mountains had bestowed on us their beauties, and we adored them with a child’s simplicity and revered them with a monk’s veneration of the divine. Annapurna, "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

4 " I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the mountains. There was something unnatural in the way I saw Lachenal and everything around us. I smiled to myself at the paltriness of our efforts, for I could stand apart and watch myself making these efforts. But all sense of exertion was gone, as though there were no longer any gravity. This diaphanous landscape, this quintessence of purity—these were not the mountains I knew: they were the mountains of my dreams. "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

5 " But like everything else in India, the problem would be solved, provided there was no hurry. "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

6 " There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

7 " Nevertheless, as Terray declared later, nothing would ever equal those first desperate days when he put forth every ounce of his courage, strength and resolution. "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

8 " conifers "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

9 " Yes! A fierce and savage wind tore at us. We were on top of Annapurna! 8,075 meters, 26,493 feet. "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna

10 " A glacier is like a river; the level places where it spreads out tranquilly are followed by turbulent falls. "

― Maurice Herzog , Annapurna