Why Climb Mount Everest? Because It's There.

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.

Why Climb Mount Everest? Because It's There.

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

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

We Don't Live To Eat And Make Money. We Eat And Make Money To Be Able To Enjoy Life. That Is What Life Means, And That Is What Life Is For.