George Leigh Mallory Quotes

United Kingdom, Mountaineer
June 18, 1886 – June, 9, 1924.

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, in the early 1920s.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

George Leigh Mallory
- Wind
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.

George Leigh Mallory
- Life
- Live
- Money

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.

George Leigh Mallory
- World
- Single
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

George Leigh Mallory
- Question