- Why Do You Want To Climb

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.

One Comes To Bless The Absolute Bareness, Feeling That Here Is A Pure Beauty Of Form, A Kind Of Ultimate Harmony.

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.

We Will Stomp To The Top With The Wind In Our Teeth.

- Why Do You Want To Climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because It Is There.