“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.”

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

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British mountaineer 1886–1924

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