Because It's There. (when Asked

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.

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.

How To Get The Best Of It All? 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 Musn't Be Daredis This The Summit, Crowning The Day? How Cool And Quiet! We're Not Exultant; But Delighted, Joyful, Soberly Astonished. Have We Vanquished An Enemy? None But Ourselves. Have We Gained Success? That Word Means Nothing Here. Have We Won A Kingdom? Noand Yes. We Have Achieved An Ultimate Satisfactionfulfilled A Destiny. To Struggle And To Understand - Never This Last Without The Other; Such Is The Law.

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.

Half The Charm Of Climbing Mountains Is Born In Visions Preceding This Experience - Visions Of What Is Mysterious, Remote, Inaccessible.