What is there that confers the noblest delight?
What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which
any other experience can bring to him?
Discovery!
To know that you are walking where none others have walked;
That you are beholding what human eye has not seen before;
That you are breathing a virgin atmosphere…
To be the first—that is the idea.
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad