Commander Robert Edwin Peary, a civil engineer in the US Navy reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6040069.ece
George Leigh Mallory led the expedition in 1924 to summit Everest along with his partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine. It was unknown what happened to them until in 1975 someone located what was thought as Irvine's body. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/
The Summit was finally reached in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/
To me people do things for different reasons. Explores have multiple different reasons for exploring...whether it be passion of learning whats there, curiosity, or the true desire to find something there. For me, I do not think I would climb. It's something that I do not have a passion for. However whenever I think about climbers, I do not see it as risking their life. Every climber has a motivation behind them and for that reason alone is what they see first. Then they see the other factors....such as risks, goal of seeing the top, lost of oxygen, and so on. These climbers or explorers are brave to still climb because of the motivation even with all the risks that could occur.
Here are some climbers that reached the top of a summit. Look at how happy they look. You can tell that climbing was worth it to them.
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