The photos
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Hervé Barmasse in the Himalayas
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Hervé Barmasse training in his backyard mountains
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Italian mountaineer Hervé Barmasse
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The mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hervé Barmasse
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Hervé Barmasse training along a ridge
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Hervé Barmasse climbing a ridgeline
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