Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for August 19, 2024

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Race to the top of the world People ask me… PRESS Press: What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? And my answer must at once be: George: It is of no use. George: There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes… …and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise NOTHING will come of it. Gazette A FOOLISH EXPEDITION Inventor Wastes Fortune Developing “Mechanical Lung” Jewellery & Gems We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver. Not a gem, nor any coal or iron. If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain… …and goes out to meet it… …that the struggle is the struggle of life itself… …upward and forever upward… …then you won’t see why we go. 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. PUT PUT PUT PUT PUT We eat and make money to be able to live. PUT PUT PUT PUT PUT PUT PUT That is what life means and what life is for. - George Mallory