Because it's there.
George MalloryTag: mountains mountaineering climbing everest
People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.'There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron... 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 live. That is what life means and what life is for.
George MalloryTag: dreams mountains mountaineering climbing everest
One of the differences between us was that Marc wanted very badly to climb the Eiger, while I wanted very badly only to have climbed the Eiger. Marc, understand, is at that age when the pituitary secretes an overabundance of those hormones that mask the subtler emotions, such as fear. He tends to confuse things like life-or-death climbing with fun.
Jon KrakauerTag: humour mountaineering
My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
George MalloryTag: history mountaineering everest
K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.
Ed ViestursTag: mountaineering climbing k2
Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.
Mark TwightTag: mountains skiing snowboarding mountaineering alpinism
The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.
Mark TwightTag: mountains skiing snowboarding mountaineering climbing alpinism
too young to live, too old to die
Jeffrey RasleyTag: sailing mountaineering islands exploring travel-writing beaches adventure-travel climbing-mountains scuba-diving kayaking
The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.
Alan HinkesTag: death mountains mountaineering climbing climbing-mountains
As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:"We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full of rocks.
Alan HinkesTag: humour flying mountaineering black-humor helicopter-pilots
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