George Mallory quotes

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. (George Mallory)
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side. View quote
George Mallory
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared. View quote
George Mallory
One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony. View quote
George Mallory
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. View quote
George Mallory
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth. View quote
George Mallory
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. View quote
George Mallory
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 in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. View quote
George Mallory
Because it's there. View quote
George Mallory