"How to get the best of it all?
One must conquer, achieve, get to the top;
one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared...
Is this the summit, crowning the day?
How cool and quiet!
We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished...
Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves.
Have we gained success? That word means nothing here.
Have we won a kingdom? No... and yes.
We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction... fulfilled a destiny...
To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other;
such is the law..."
George Mallory
