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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Citation

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

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

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Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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.