Will Orr-Ewing (@willorrewing): "Conquest of Everest was an elite + government project with exactly that sort of ambition at its heart. British elites were so gutted that they had been pipped to the horizontal poles that they were determined not to let it happen with the vertical."

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Conquest of Everest was an elite + government project with exactly that sort of ambition at its heart. British elites were so gutted that they had been pipped to the horizontal poles that they were determined not to let it happen with the vertical.

The mythic quality Britain’s missing: Lord Kempsell asked what the plan was to get an Englishman on Mars. No answer. “I think it’s the mark of a healthy country to have that kind of ambition. I think it’s good to foster the ambition of young men who might wish to die defending the British settlement on Olympus Mons.”,

Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

Feb 18

6:24 AM

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