Annapurna
Maurice Herzog's account of the first ascent of an 8,000-meter peak in 1950 is mountaineering literature at its most elemental. The climb nearly killed him — he lost all his fingers and toes to frostbite — but the book endures because of its raw, unprocessed honesty about what it costs to stand on top of something that doesn't want you there.
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