Greg Child Quotes

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

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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