Mountaineers Have Often Observed A Lack Of

Because It's There. (when Asked Why He Wanted To Climb Everest)

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.

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.

For The Stone From The Top For Geologists, The Knowledge Of The Limits Of Endurance For The Doctors, But Above All For The Spirit Of Adventure To Keep Alive The Soul Of Man.

To Struggle And To Understand. Never The Last Without The First. That Is The Law.