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
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.
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.