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.
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].
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.