once there was a mountain called peak xv nothing was known about it but in 1852 the surveyors found it was the highest in the world and they named it everest when men were first drawn to everest they found it was an unknown quantity something entirely beyond them when men were first drawn to everest it was an unknown quantity something entirely beyond them something entirely beyond them a climber climbs with his guts his brain his soul and his feet all of them bound for a cold and white world a world that is all up and up up and up the air is getting thinner and thinner at such heights when youre lacking oxygen you may think youre normal but youre not youre moving in a dream a dream that deludes and debilitates two very small men cutting steps in the roof of the world the roof of the world up and up up and up why should a man climb everest because it is there