I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes.

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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.

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[Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?] Because it's there.

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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.

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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.

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We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

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