To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

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.

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.

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.

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

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

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.