"Because it's there."

"One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony."

"I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and v…"

"Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another …"

"Not everyone who starts the journey with you deserves to be with you at the end. You just need to realise who it is t…"

"Just like our Grade 7 teachers were amazing, they were irrelevant for tertiary, right? Not because they were bad peop…"

"I have a love-hate relationship with Everest. It’s the weather, it’s the route… and when you acclimatise, you have to…"

"I profess accurately to describe naked Africa—Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse,…"

"To say a negro is incapable of instruction, is a mere absurdity; for those few boys who have been educated in our sch…"

"The prowling, restless elephant, ... though rarely seen, leaves indications of his nocturnal excursions in every wild…"