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Une Affaire de Cordée
B
EFORE THE SUN ROSE THAT MORNING
of June 3, 1950, Louis Lachenal and Maurice Herzog
struggled to get dressed in their camp at 24,600 feet. “We could not light the stove,”
Lachenal later wrote in his diary, without offering an explanation. “It was very cold.”
Without the stove to melt snow, the men had had nothing to drink since a few cups
of tea the evening before. They had slept not at all, as the violent wind in the night
threatened to rip the tent from its platform, despite the pitons that anchored its uphill
