Louis Lachenal (1921 to 1955) was a French climber born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, and one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 metres. On 3 June 1950, on the French Annapurna expedition, he and Maurice Herzog reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at 8,091 metres. They endured a protracted descent and both men suffered from frostbite, and all of Lachenal's toes had to be amputated to prevent the spread of the gangrene that developed. His diary from the Annapurna expedition was published in 1956 as the book Carnets du vertige.
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