Once there was  a mountain called Peak 15

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

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, white world

A world that is all up and up

Up and up

The air is getting thinner and thinner

At such heights when you're lacking oxygen

You may think you're normal but you're not

You're moving in a dream

A dream that deludes and debilitates

Two very small men cutting steps in the roof of the world

Up and up

Why should a man climb Everest?

Because it is there