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.

One Must Conquer, Achieve, Get To The Top; One Must Know The End To Be Convinced That One Can Win The End - To Know There's No Dream That Mustn't Be Dared. . .

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

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.

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.