Dhaulagiri North Face close up from the trek from Jomsom to Kagbeni. (Herzog) "What about the north ridge?" (Couzy) "Ice all the way. looks very seep. Certainly great technical difficulties. The ticklish part is toward the middle, but there is another snag, how to get to the ridge. From here the East glacier, which you expect to be the normal approach, looks extremely broken up” (Maurice Herzog, Annapurna).