Public Service Broadcasting - Everest lyrics

spoken: Once there was a mountain known as Peak 15. Nothing was known about it But in 1852 the surveyors found that it was the highest 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 brains, 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 (In the roof of the world) (Up, and up) (Up, and up) Why should a man climb Everest? Because it is there