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...rabbinate was quick to denounce the booming sales of Judaism's "abominable meat." Last week Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog led religious Israelis through a week of protest. Jerusalem was posted with signs titled "Ye Who Defile," which called both pig eaters and pig breeders "empty, godless people devoid of any respect for Israel or its values." At mass meetings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, rabbis pronounced an adapted version of an ancient curse: "Accursed be he who raises pigs, his partners, helpers and assistants, and sevenfold curses on him who raises pigs in the Holy Land of Israel...
...Frenchman Maurice Herzog just discovered a fabulous drug to ease human suffering? Or had the girl of his dreams finally said yes? It was nothing so commonplace as either: Herzog and a companion had just climbed a mountain...
...ordinary mountain, no well-worn Mont Blanc. Annapurna, in the Nepalese Himalayas, soars 26,493 ft., and when Herzog and his pal, Louis Lachenal, reached the summit, they had scaled the highest peak ever topped by man. In Annapurna, Herzog's story of the expedition in the spring of 1950, the victory becomes a literary anticlimax. What is vastly more exciting than the climb is the return trip, the harrowing ordeal-by-nature calculated to shiver the spirit of the toughest armchair explorer. Author Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes...
Taking pictures on the peak, Herzog saw his only pair of gloves go rolling down the slope for good. Almost immediately his hands were numb. Hurrying down, the two met a pair of waiting colleagues at the 25,300-ft. level, and it seemed that the worst was over, when Lachenal slipped and fell 300 ft. to the ice below. Miraculously, he broke no bones, but he had suffered a concussion, and all four spent a dreadful, storm-whipped night in tiny tents. Going down the next morning, they lost their way. By then, both Herzog's and Lachenal...
...their real ordeal was yet to come. Throughout the trip to New Delhi, much of it on coolie back, the expedition doctor kept amputating. Without anesthetics and using large shears, he kept snipping until Lachenal had lost all his toes, Herzog all his toes and fingers. When Climber Herzog is asked: "Was it worth it?" he merely smiles. The last words of his book: "There are other Annapurnas in the lives...