We Don't Live To Eat And Make

The First Question Which You Will Ask And Which I Must Try To Answer Is This; What Is The Use Of Climbing Mount Everest? And My Answer Must At Once Be, It Is No Use. There Is Not The Slightest Prospect Of Any Gain Whatsoever.

Why Climb Mount Everest? Because It's There.

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

One Comes To Bless The Absolute Bareness, Feeling That Here Is A Pure Beauty Of Form, A Kind Of Ultimate Harmony.

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.