...of its more cruel moods; for we must remember that the highest of mountains is capable of severity, a severity so awful and so fatal that the wiser sort...tremble even on the threshold of their high endeavour. George Mallory (from Everest Reconnaissance - The First Expedition of 1921 by Charles Howard-Bury and...

...breakdown in transporting supplies, soft snow, high wind. "The highest of mountains is capable of severity, a severity so awful and so fatal that the wiser sort...tremble even on the threshold of their high endeavour." Ruth saw all too little of George during January and February. His lecture tour ended in Newcastle...

...Mallory once wrote, "that the highest of mountains is capable of severity, a severity so awful and fatal that the wiser sort of men do well to think and tremble even on the threshold of their high endeavor." Once it became known that Mallory and Irvine had died in their summit attempt, the other...

...of its more cruel moods ; for we must remember that the highest of mountains is capable of severity, a severity so awful and so fatal that the wiser sort...tremble even on the threshold of their high endeavour." The second part of the book is a series of letters written by Mallory. The last letter ends : " We...