A quote from George Leigh Mallory, a famous Everest climber, who fell victim to the harsh climate of the mountain. We found this a the bottom of Twin Falls in Smithers, BC, up a little pathway on a plaque commemorating the life of Eric Paul Buss.
"...if you cannot understand that there is something in man that responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is a struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."
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