26 Quotes by George Leigh Mallory

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.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

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.

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.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

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. . .

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.