The post title is a quote from George Mallory, English Mountaineer, who disappeared--along with his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine--on his attempt to summit Everest in June of 1924, almost three decades before the first confirmed summiting by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and local Himalayan Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, on May 29, 1953. The debate as to… Continue reading “Because It’s There”
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