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George Mallory
5 quotes
“Because it's there.”
George Mallory (1886–1924) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, "Climbing Mount Everest is work for Supermen", The New York Times (18 March 1923); on being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest:
“One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”
George Mallory (1886–1924) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921), acquitted in Everest: The Mountaineering History (2000) by Walt Unsworth, p. 47; also The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory (2001) by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman,…
“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 set the other side.”
George Mallory (1886–1924) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (27 May 1924), published in Kingdom of Adventure — Everest (2006) by L. V. Stewart Blacker, p. 124
“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 Mallory (1886–1924) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance (1921), Chapter XII: The Northern Approach, "The Reconnaissance of the Mountain", p. 186
“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 Mallory (1886–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory (2001), p. 53