Because It Is There [famous Explanation For

So, If You Cannot Understand That There Is Something In Man Which Responds To The Challenge Of This Mountain And Goes Out To Meet It, That The Struggle Is The Struggle Of Life Itself Upward And Forever Upward, Then You Won’t See Why We Go. What We Get From This Adventure Is Just Sheer Joy. And Joy Is, After All, The End Of Life. We Do Not Live To Eat And Make Money. We Eat And Make Money To Be Able To Enjoy Life. That Is What Life Means And What Life Is For.

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

Why Do We Travel To Remote Locations? To Prove Our Adventurous Spirit Or To Tell Stories About Incredible Things? We Do It To Be Alone Amongst Friends And To Find Ourselves In A Land Without Man.

Why Climb Mount Everest? Because It's There.

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.