Greg Child Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Greg Child

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Greg Child