SENSE OF CONQUEST & DANGER
M R L - s - AMEEY, speaking at the dinner of the Midland Association of Mountaineers at Birmingham, said he had no use for those who thought the whole world should, be turned into a place where no one could ever face death except from old age. There was a great deal too mcch of the undue fear of discomfort, or pain, or death in the world to-day. At any rate those who climbed on the high hills, while they did not seek danger unnecessarily, while
they took very prudent precaution to avoid it, were yet among those who were not afraid' either of danger or discomfort. Mountaineering was the finest and the most inspiring of all sports. It was so because it taught us to measure ourselves against the elements and against Nature. It was so •also, not because it was more hazardous than other sports, but because there was always in it a combination both of the sense of conquest and of the sense of danger.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 June 1933, Page 14
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