George Leigh Mallory
George Leigh Mallory
George Herbert Leigh Mallory was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth18 June 1886
wind teeth
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
climbing want trekking
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.
mountain world gestures
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.
dream lying sleep
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.
dream struggle mean
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.
doors snow effort
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.
wanted everest climbs
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)
everest mount-everest climbs
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
everest explanation mount-everest
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
dream winning conquer
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. . .
climbing hiking vision
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
feelings kind harmony
One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.