- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. George Leigh Mallory More Quotes by George Leigh Mallory More Quotes From George Leigh 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. George Leigh Mallory motivational life travel The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure. George Leigh Mallory danger-in-life life-is adventure One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . George Leigh Mallory conquer dream winning 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. George Leigh Mallory struggle adventure mean 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. George Leigh Mallory climbing happiness mean How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that musn't be daredIs this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful, soberly astonished. Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? Noand yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfactionfulfilled a destiny. To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law. George Leigh Mallory struggle dream mean One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony. George Leigh Mallory harmony kind feelings Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence. George Leigh Mallory dream sleep lying To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law. George Leigh Mallory lasts struggle law We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth. George Leigh Mallory teeth wind 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. George Leigh Mallory land stories men The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. George Leigh Mallory mountain nature travel My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so. George Leigh Mallory rebellion mind believe 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. George Leigh Mallory imagination white sky Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. George Leigh Mallory mount-everest mt-everest everest Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. George Leigh Mallory climbing hiking vision 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. George Leigh Mallory climbing perspective trying 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 see the other side. George Leigh Mallory effort doors snow Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. George Leigh Mallory mount-everest explanation everest Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) George Leigh Mallory climbs everest wanted
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