Quote#Hope
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out…
Quote byGeorge Mallory · 1886–1924
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Diary entry (27 May 1924), published in Kingdom of Adventure — Everest (2006) by L. V. Stewart Blacker, p. 124.
English (original)
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side.
— George Mallory
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