"For the stone from the top for geologists,……" — George Leigh Mallory
"For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man."
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18 Quotes by George Leigh Mallory
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What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We…
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Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
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My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
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To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
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Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We…
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How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the…
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The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the…
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We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
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One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate…
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Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through…
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use…
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Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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