《登山，每日一话》------- New York Times

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It is the necessity of human nature that practical records should be broken; and to affect the inability to understand why men are irresistibly attracted to the chance of doing something first or going somewhere first, is a waste of time. They are built that way, and to the very impulse that rules them the world is enormously indebted.

                                        - New York Times writer covering George Leigh Mallory's "Because it's there" statement.

这是人类的天性，去打破那些可是被挑战的记录；去影响那些缺乏能力的人们，让他们了解人类为什么会义无返顾地被首次完成任何事情，或是首次到达任何地方的机会所吸引，这纯粹是浪费时间。他们生来如此，主宰他们世界的每一丝动力都是他们人生中巨大的背负。

                                      －纽约时报作家关于George Leigh Mallory ‘因为山在哪里’声明的评述