Because it's there

Eusebio 2022-03-22 09:01:33

Because it's there,

human beings always want to set foot in places they have never been, and step on land they have never stepped on. For this desire, even if they lose their lives, they are willing to give up. When George Mallory was first asked in New York why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, he said "Because it's there".
"Because it's there"
Can I understand? I can pretend to understand. Because people just want to conquer nature, overcome their own limits, and bring glory to Great Britain Blablabla. Do I really understand? I can say that I don't understand it (when I asked about the female vote, I said I couldn't understand it).
why? Because to climb Mount Everest is to gamble with life, why do people want to go to space, because It's up there. So we keep surveying, sending unmanned spaceships, spaceships with orangutans, and manned spaceships. Even if it's there, why take risk? This is probably what I find most incomprehensible, even on Everest right now. The fatality rate is still around 5% or 10%, I don't know.
The only person who can convince me to understand is Beck, the Texan who miraculously survived two days in a snowstorm. His reasoning was "everything is sucked" if he wasn't climbing, but whenever he was standing on the mountain, or enjoying the whole process of climbing, those things were gone. It should be entirely possible that I would even make the same choice as Beck if I were.
Let’s talk about this topic first = = Let’s talk about the movie itself. After watching this movie, it’s still heavy, and I will recall the scene before going to bed for two consecutive days. Mount Everest is not a world of conversation. Here, there are people who disregard their own safety to rescue their friends, those who persevere in climbing Mount Everest, and those who have completed the last climb of a mountain above 8,000 meters above sea level. It's just that they couldn't come over, and couldn't walk back to where they started. There's even one place I feel sad about it now. Daug finally insisted on climbing Mount Everest at 4 o'clock and took pictures, proving that he can achieve his dreams, but in the end, Robb who helped him take pictures and he did not go back. Daug chose to go to the top of the world in exchange for his life, and in the end, he still stayed on Mount Everest.
Everyone here is a person with a story, I mean from the viewer's point of view, at least like I watched "Band of Brothers", every soldier has a story, seems to have a protagonist halo, however On the battlefield, they all returned to equality in the end, and they all seemed to be playing soy sauce one after another. Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, even world-class climbing experts, couldn't escape, and that's probably where the heaviness lies.
It seems to be the same as a movie "Perfect Storm" that I watched when I was very young. Should I feel that they challenged nature beyond their own power, or should I feel their courage. I think, maybe I haven't climbed mountains, gone abroad, and can't feel the comfort of conquering nature, maybe I can't understand why I gamble with my life, but every time I see this group of people, even if they pay Life, people who want to conquer, I will definitely still think in my heart, I am 100% emotional about your courage.
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Everest quotes

  • Scott Fischer: Sit down man, acclimatize.

  • Rob Hall: Everest is another beast altogether.