Because It Is There [famous

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.

Because It's There. (when Asked Why He Wanted To Climb Everest)

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

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

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.