Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
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.
- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.
Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.