The Springs of Adventure Author:Wilfred Noyce Why do men seek adventure? What is it that makes them want to climb sheer cliffs of ice, to challenge the ocean in frail craft, to grope blindly deep in icy waters, to forsake comfort and security to seek the mysterious rewards of adventure? Wilfred Noyce, poet, scholar, and mountaineer who climbed Everest with Hillary, has long sought in his ... more »own mind the answer to this question - or the many answers, for it is a question that concerns the motives of man and there is no simple reply.« less