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George Herbert Leigh Mallory, né le 18 juin 1886 à Mobberley dans le comté de Cheshire, et aperçu pour la dernière fois le 8 juin 1924 sur la crête nord de l'Everest, est un alpiniste britannique.

Dans une conférence à New York, il a répondu aux journalistes, qui lui demandaient sans relâche pourquoi il voulait escalader le mont Everest, « Parce qu'il est là » . Ce sont les quatre mots les plus célèbres de l'alpinisme. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. juin 1886 – 9. juin 1924
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“Parce qu'il est là!”

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Because it's there !
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Réponse de Mallory aux journalistes qui lui demandaient sans relâche pourquoi il voulait escalader le mont Everest
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George Mallory: Citations en anglais

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

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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

“Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.”

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The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory (2001), p. 53

“Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.”

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Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance (1921), Chapter XII: The Northern Approach, "The Reconnaissance of the Mountain", p. 186

“I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side.”

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Diary entry (27 May 1924), published in Kingdom of Adventure — Everest (2006) by L. V. Stewart Blacker, p. 124

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