- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
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… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
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