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The mountains were there and so was I.

Maurice Herzog

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Maurice Herzog
Age: 93 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 15
Died: 2012
Died: December 14
Explorer
French Resistance Fighter
Mountaineer
Politician
Hiking
Mountains
Mountain

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