George Leigh Mallory Quotes About Mount Everest
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
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Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
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Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
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- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.
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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.
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So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. 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. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.
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We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
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