Because it's there. (George Mallory)

Because it's there.

George Mallory

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Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man. View quote
George Mallory
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side. View quote
George Mallory
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared. View quote
George Mallory
One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony. View quote
George Mallory
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. View quote
George Mallory