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

January 1, 1970

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Letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921), acquitted in Everest: The Mountaineering History‎ (2000) by Walt Unsworth, p. 47; also The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory (2001) by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, p. 13