My Mind Is In A State Of

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.

How To Get The Best Of It All? 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 Musn't Be Daredis This The Summit, Crowning The Day? How Cool And Quiet! We're Not Exultant; But Delighted, Joyful, Soberly Astonished. Have We Vanquished An Enemy? None But Ourselves. Have We Gained Success? That Word Means Nothing Here. Have We Won A Kingdom? Noand Yes. We Have Achieved An Ultimate Satisfactionfulfilled A Destiny. To Struggle And To Understand - Never This Last Without The Other; Such Is The Law.

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.

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.

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