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"Why climb Mount Everest?"
"Because It's There"
- George Leigh Mallory
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Andres Delgardo, attempting the climb in 1997 contemplates the asault on the peak:
"Sometimes in dreams I wonder how Hillary and Tenzing must have felt on that day... stepping on ground that had never been tread upon ... all the heights of the planet were below their feet, and above them, nothing but the infinite. That is what I would call a communion with the world and with existence ... to transcend, or at least to try."
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