George Leigh Mallory Quotes

"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."
- George Leigh Mallory
(Related: Magnificence, Mountains, World)

"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."
- George Leigh Mallory
(Related: First, Gain, Question, Will)

"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."
- George Leigh Mallory
(Related: Money, Life, Adventure, End, Joy)