Dswounds! why dost thou not lay out thy money to purchase a place at court, of honest Israel ?

[…] but she always sighed for the good old days, and maintained that there was not such heartsomeness in the intercourse of the people as among the neighbors at the Gore.

The only photograph we possessed of the slopes leading to the South Col was a rather unsatisfactory aerial one. It made the upper slopes look impossibly steep. We called it our 'horror photograph', and it was produced whenever one of the party became too optimistic. After perusing it for a while, even the most enthusiastic Everester tended to develop the attitude of: 'Let's go and find we can't climb it! Then we can go away and get down to some really enjoyable exploration!'

Sleep deprivation can lead to fatal vehicular accidents.