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Greg Child Quotes

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Greg Child
Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.

Greg Child
Climbing, Years, Two

The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.

Greg Child
Beautiful, Dying, Mountain
Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.133, The Mountaineers Books

Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

Greg Child
Struggle, Climbing, Feet
Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

Greg Child
Children, Climbing, Poor
Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.158, Mountaineers Books

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

Greg Child
Climbing, Giving, Smoking
Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.81, The Mountaineers Books

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