"Why do we travel to remote locations? To……" — George Leigh Mallory
"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."
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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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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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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
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