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The 1950 French Annapurna expedition, led by Maurice Herzog, successfully reached the summit of Annapurna I at 8,091 metres , the highest peak in the Annapurna Massif. The mountain is located in Nepal and the government had given permission for the expedition, the first time it had permitted mountaineering in over a century. After failing to climb Dhaulagiri I at 8,167 metres , the higher peak nearby to the west, the team attempted Annapurna with Herzog and Louis Lachenal reaching the summit on 3 June 1950. It was only with considerable help from their team that they were able to return alive, though with very severe injuries following frostbite. Annapurna became the highest mountain to have been ascended to its summit, exceeding that of the 1936 expedition to Nanda Devi, and the mountain was the first eight-thousander to be climbed. The feat was a great achievement for French mountaineering and caught the public imagination with front page coverage in a best-selling issue of Paris Match. Herzog wrote an immensely popular book Annapurna full of vivid descriptions of heroic endeavour and anguished suffering – but which much later became criticised for being too self-serving.
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