One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.
George Leigh MalloryHalf the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
George Leigh MalloryGradually, 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