To Struggle And To Understand. Never The

Because It's There. (when Asked Why He Wanted To Climb Everest)

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 See The Other Side.

Why Climb Mount Everest? Because It's There.

Because It Is There [famous Explanation For Wanting To Climb Mount Everest].

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.