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George Leigh Mallory Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.
         



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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.



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



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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.



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