George Leigh Mallory Quotes

I accept any challenge, so challenge me

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

It's like a living process. You start out, and you see the Eiger north face, and you think, 'That's impossible.' Then you start to dream. Then you climb the Eiger north face. Then maybe you go to the Himalaya.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.

We all love challenges.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

The only failure is not trying.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

I've always loved a challenge.