Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith translated the book from French into English in 1952.

[4] The expedition was the first to attain the summit of one of the eight-thousanders—peaks higher than 8,000 meters, all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia.

[3] Maurice Isserman in Fallen Giants (2010), a history of Himalayan climbing, consider Annapurna to be the "most successful [mountaineering] expedition book of all times".

"[2] Annapurna served as an inspiration for W. E. Bowman's parody novel The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956), which pokes gentle but pointed fun at Herzog's sometimes pompous writing style.

David Roberts' book True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna (2000) examines the controversy.