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George Leigh Mallory quotes

Ocupation: Mountaineer

Life: June 18, 1886 - June 8, 1924

Birthday: June 18

Death: June 8

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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.

Topics: Happiness, Mean, Enjoy Life, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Mountain Top

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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.

source: - "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

Topics: Adventure, Joy, Making Money, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Mountain Top

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

Topics: Adventure, Life Is, Danger, Danger In Life

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

source: - Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923

Topics: Everest, Mount Everest, Climbs, Mt Everest

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. . .

Topics: Dream, Winning, Conquer, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Mountain Top

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.

source: - George Leigh Mallory's diary entry (May 27, 1924) as quoted in James Ramsey Ullman "Kingdom of Adventure: Everest" (p. 124), 1947.

Topics: Doors, Snow, Effort

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

Topics: Climbing, Hiking, Vision

Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

Topics: Stupid, Hiking, Mind, Mountaineering

Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.

Topics: Dream, Lying, Sleep, Time To Sleep

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.

Topics: Climbing, Trying, Answers, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

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.

source: - "Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921". Book by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and George Leigh Mallory, 1922.

Topics: Sky, White, Imagination, Climbing Mount Everest, Glaciers

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

source: - George Leigh Mallory's letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921) as quoted in Walt Unsworth "Everest: The Mountaineering History‎" (p. 47), 1981.

Topics: Feelings, Kind, Harmony

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

Topics: Wind, Teeth

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.

Topics: Mountain, World, Gestures, Climbing Mount Everest

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 musn't be daredIs 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? Noand yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfactionfulfilled a destiny. To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law.

Topics: Dream, Struggle, Mean, Mountain Top, Mountaineering

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.

source: - "The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory". Book by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, June 29, 2000.

Topics: Men, Land, Stories, Adventurous Spirit

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

Topics: Struggle, Law, Lasts

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

Topics: Believe, Mind, Rebellion

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

Topics: Explanation, Everest, Mount Everest

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.

Topics: Adventure, Men, Doctors, Spirit Of Adventure, Geologist

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

Topics: Climbing, Want, Trekking, Rock Climbing, Mt Everest

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.

Topics: Struggle, Mean, Adventure, Mountain Top, Climbing Mountain

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Topics: Wanted, Everest, Climbs

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