George Leigh Mallory Quotes

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Adventure, Danger In Life, Life Is

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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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Life, Motivational, Travel

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

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Want, Trekking

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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

  Struggle, Mean, Adventure

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• 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. . .

  George Leigh Mallory

  Dream, Winning, Conquer

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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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Happiness, Mean, Climbing

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Struggle, Law, Lasts

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• 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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Men, Land, Stories

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

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• 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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Dream, Struggle, Mean

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Wind, Teeth

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• Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Everest, Mount Everest, Mt Everest

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Hiking, Vision

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• 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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Sky, White, Imagination

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

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• 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.

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  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• 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

  Adventure, Men, Doctors

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Feelings, Kind, Harmony

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

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Believe, Mind, Rebellion

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• 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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Stupid, Hiking, Mind

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• 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

  Nature, Travel, Mountain

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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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Perspective, Trying

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• 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.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Doors, Snow, Effort

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

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Explanation, Everest, Mount Everest

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

  George Leigh Mallory

  Wanted, Everest, Climbs

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