George Everest Quotes

#1. Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

George Leigh Mallory

#2. Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

George Leigh Mallory

#3. Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

John F. Kennedy

#4. 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.

George Mallory

#5. Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

George Leigh Mallory

#6. Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.

Mitch Albom

#7. My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

George Mallory

#8. Because it's there.
-George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)

Stephen Bezruchka

#9. Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

George Leigh Mallory

#10. She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else.

Zadie Smith

#11. Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

George R R Martin

#12. Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Coco Chanel

#13. Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.

Mary Everest Boole

#14. Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory

Conrad Anker

#15. There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

Frederick Lenz

#16. There is a place where voices sing your beauty,
A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

Rumi

#17. Because it's there.

George Mallory

#18. There were no aisles, so to get to the empty cot I had to climb over other senators. The first was Ted Kennedy. He was a big man, and at that moment he looked to me like Mount Everest.

George Mitchell

#19. There were other houses that always brought images of an orderly life, kitchens with plain sideboards, old windows, the comforts of marriage in their common form, which at times surpassed everything - breakfast in the morning, conversations, late hours, and nothing that suggested excess or decay.

James Salter

#20. One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

Rory Bremner

#21. If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

George Carlin

#22. 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

#23. - Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

George Leigh Mallory