Climbing mountains

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Because it's there.

George Mallory

Quoted in The New York Times

Upon being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.

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Mallory, George. "Climbing Mount Everest is Work for Supermen." New York Times, 18 Mar. 1923.

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Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. William Morrow and Company, 1974.

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Original Citation

Petrarch. Letter to Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro. c. 1336.

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Petrarch. "To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro of the Augustinian Order and Professor of Sacred Scripture, concerning some of his personal problems." Letters of Familiar Matters (Rerum Familiarum Libri), translated by Aldo Bernardo. Vol. 1, Italica Press, 2008.