Be Bigger Than You Are

Early in this century, a man named Mallory led an expedition of climbers attempting to conquer Mount Everest. The expedition failed. Mallory tried again with a second group. Again the expedition ended in failure. Mallory then assembled a third expedition made up of the most experienced and able climbers he could find. But in spite of careful planning, the third expedition ended in disaster when an avalanche struck, killing Mallory and most of the party. Later, when the few survivors returned home to England, they were invited to attend a banquet given as a tribute to both the deceased and surviving members of Mallory’s party. When the leader of the survivors was introduced, he rose from his chair and looked around the room at the pictures of Mallory and his other dead comrades which had been hung on the walls. Then he turned his back to the audience to face a huge picture of Mount Everest hanging behind the banquet table. Tears ran down his…