Mountaineers Have Often Observed A Lack Of

The Greatest Danger In Life Is Not To Take The Adventure.

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.

- Why Do You Want To Climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because It Is There.

Half The Charm Of Climbing Mountains Is Born In Visions Preceding This Experience - Visions Of What Is Mysterious, Remote, Inaccessible.

We Will Stomp To The Top With The Wind In Our Teeth.