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

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

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.

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.

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.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

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