The Greatest Danger In Life Is Not

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because It Is There [famous Explanation For Wanting To Climb Mount Everest].