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>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. 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. [...] What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. - George Mallory
>This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death! - John Muir
>If you had lived, as they had lived and died in the heart of nature, would you, yourself, wish for any better grave than a grave of pure white snow? - John Noel on Mallory and Irvine
