The Elusive Summit of Achievement ; Birkenhead Is Honouring Two of Cheshire's Greatest Sons, Who Remain at the Heart of One of Mountaineering's Most Enduring Mysteries.
Daily Post › November 18, 2009
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ACTION man and novelist Ernest Hemingway once stated: "There are only three true sports: motor racing, bull-fighting and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games."
He was presumably defining the fact that risk of death validates these pursuits like no other.See the full content of this document
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The Elusive Summit of Achievement ; Birkenhead Is Honouring Two of Cheshire's Greatest Sons, Who Remain at the Heart of One of Mountaineering's Most Enduring Mysteries.
Hence the most famous three words in mountaineering occurring when George Leigh Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount EveresS t? He allegedly made the retort: "Because it"s there."
Whether Mallory actually said this is not the only enduring mystery about the mounta...See the full content of this document
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