Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share
Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share
