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George Leigh Mallory quotes

British Celebrity June 18, 1886 – June 8, 1924

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So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. 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. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for. George Leigh 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. George Leigh Mallory
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for. George Leigh Mallory
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate... George Leigh 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. 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. George Leigh Mallory
George Leigh Mallory quote: "To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the..."
To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law. George Leigh Mallory
George Leigh Mallory quote: "We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth."
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth. George Leigh 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. George Leigh Mallory
George Leigh Mallory quote: "Because it's there."
Because it's there. George Leigh Mallory

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