George Leigh Mallory
George Leigh Mallory
George Herbert Leigh Mallory was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth18 June 1886
climbing trying mountain
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.
everest explanation mount-everest
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
stupid hiking mind
Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.
climbing hiking vision
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
everest mount-everest climbs
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
wanted everest climbs
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)
adventure men doctors
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.
feelings kind harmony
One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.
sky white imagination
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.
doors snow effort
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.
climbing want trekking
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.
believe mind rebellion
My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
mountain world gestures
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.
struggle law lasts
To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.