I guess the question to Mallory was, “Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?” Nothing esoteric, I guess. “Because it’s there.” Mallory was an exceptional guy, by all accounts. Mallett plays a great game with the quote!
“I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.” Edmund Hillary
“My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.” Edmund Hillary
“I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.” Edmund Hillary
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” Edmund Hillary
“Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.” Edmund Hillary
The situation is similar to the Vikings in North America. Did Leif Erikson really discover America around 1000 AD if almost no one knew he did it, nothing came of it, and everyone forgot about it until recently?
There’s an adage among people I’d like to resemble more than I do that a job 90 percent done is the same as 0 percent done. There’s an adage among swim coaches that races are won all the way through the race and lost in the final meter. And there is a saying I love that I read in an interview with, of all people, the one from Hall & Oates with the Freddy Mercury mustache, “If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it means you’re still in the (obscenity)* tunnel.”
Free-divers don’t get credit for a dive unless they can return to and (I’m serious) stay at the surface long enough to prove they’re not going to pass out. You haven’t flown until you land, and you haven’t summited if you don’t make it down.
There’s something — a lot — to be said about doing your best and failing anyway, and I get more than a little impatient with the alpha dicks who divide the world into winners and losers. But if there’s one thing more important than doing something first or doing something best, it’s doing it again.________________*as Hemingway (was no doubt forced to) put it in “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
starfighter441 almost 6 years ago
If I recall correctly this was the answer that Sir Edmund always gave to this question when asked.
The Legend of Brandon Sawyer almost 6 years ago
Deep
ChukLitl Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Cook & Magellan proved you don’t have to make it back to be a great explorer.
whahoppened almost 6 years ago
Until space rockets, it wasn’t possible to fly without landing.
Anathema Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I’m with Frazz on this one. You have not climbed the mountain until you have come down.
Kind&Kinder almost 6 years ago
I guess the question to Mallory was, “Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?” Nothing esoteric, I guess. “Because it’s there.” Mallory was an exceptional guy, by all accounts. Mallett plays a great game with the quote!
sandpiper almost 6 years ago
Nicely done
sandpiper almost 6 years ago
Speaking of flying: R.I.P. ‘Opportunity’. Expected life time = 90 days. Final count = 15 years. Return of effort = immeasurable Thank you.
Ontman almost 6 years ago
Now that we ‘know’ that it would be easier to get over Mt. Everest that to get over Mr. Trump’s wall the achievement was just sad.
Yakety Sax almost 6 years ago
“I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.” Edmund Hillary
“My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.” Edmund Hillary
“I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.” Edmund Hillary
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” Edmund Hillary
“Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.” Edmund Hillary
Lenavid almost 6 years ago
Sounds like wisdom from “The Sphinx” in the movie “Mystery Men”.
Ed The Red Premium Member almost 6 years ago
The situation is similar to the Vikings in North America. Did Leif Erikson really discover America around 1000 AD if almost no one knew he did it, nothing came of it, and everyone forgot about it until recently?
Teto85 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Mallory was recently found. Or at least what was left of him. Evidence shows that he did not make it to the top.
jbarnes almost 6 years ago
Tenzing Norgay summited with Hillary, but is rarely mentioned.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
PostsFrazz13 hrs ·
There’s an adage among people I’d like to resemble more than I do that a job 90 percent done is the same as 0 percent done. There’s an adage among swim coaches that races are won all the way through the race and lost in the final meter. And there is a saying I love that I read in an interview with, of all people, the one from Hall & Oates with the Freddy Mercury mustache, “If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it means you’re still in the (obscenity)* tunnel.”
Free-divers don’t get credit for a dive unless they can return to and (I’m serious) stay at the surface long enough to prove they’re not going to pass out. You haven’t flown until you land, and you haven’t summited if you don’t make it down.
There’s something — a lot — to be said about doing your best and failing anyway, and I get more than a little impatient with the alpha dicks who divide the world into winners and losers. But if there’s one thing more important than doing something first or doing something best, it’s doing it again.________________*as Hemingway (was no doubt forced to) put it in “For Whom the Bell Tolls”