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FIVE
Deliverance
T
HE CENTRAL MYSTERY
of the 1950 Annapurna expedition is what happened on June 3.
For the time being, let us pass the question by, and follow not Lachenal and Herzog
as they press through the cold, thin air toward the summit, but Rébuffat and Terray
as they climb out of Camp IV, planning a second summit foray the next day. Upon ar-
riving at the serac-sheltered camp the night before, the two Chamonix guides had en-
