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So, If You Cannot Understand That There Is Something In Man Which Responds To The Challenge Of This Mountain And Goes Out To Meet It, That The Struggle Is The Struggle Of Life Itself Upward And Forever Upward, Then You Won’t See Why We Go. 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. We Eat And Make Money To Be Able To Enjoy Life. That Is What Life Means And What Life Is For.

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.

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.

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.