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start of the 1990s, it was difficult to raise funds for major mountaineering expeditions in France. The French Federation of Mountaineering and Climbing could no longer fund expeditions (as it had done since the French Annapurna expeditions). Alpinist Jean-Claude Marmier, then president of the (or GHM), suggested an annual prize for "outstanding achievement in the world of alpinism" might increase the public profile

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