"To struggle and to understand. Never the last……" — George Leigh Mallory
"To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law."
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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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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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Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the…
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
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