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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory

Mallory is famously quoted as having replied to the question "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" with the retort: "Because it's there", which has been called "the most famous three words in mountaineering".



Mallory also had a pretty strained relationship with his wife as a result of his mountaineering. If I remember correctly, he promised her several times he would never go back to Everest but always ended up going. I'm not saying I don't sympathize with his dilema, but it's worth pointing out that there are two sides to those famous words.


I love unfiltered information, but there was something pathetic about seeing Mallory's corpse in that picture -- just a frozen, eroded lump of meat.

There's a reason we don't see more pictures of our dead heros.


Of course, I don't think it's bothering him any.


Wouldn't that be 4?


No.


Uh? What am I missing? "Because-it-is-there." The 's counts as one word, no? At least that's what I was always told.


The 's doesn't count as a word. "it's" is one word, but it has the same meaning as "it is".




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