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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-child/maybe-himalayan-climbing-is-just-a-bad-habit-like-smoking-of-which/)

[Greg Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-child/)

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## More by Greg Child

> [Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-child/somewhere-between-the-bottom-of-the-climb-and-the-summit-is-the/)

[Greg Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-child/)

> [If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-child/if-we-ever-have-children-and-they-become-climbers-i-ll-tell-them-stay/)

[Greg Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-child/)

> [Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-child/maybe-himalayan-climbing-is-just-a-bad-habit-like-smoking-of-which/)

[Greg Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-child/)

> [The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-child/the-mountain-is-nothing-without-people-on-it-often-you-part/)

[Greg Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-child/)

> [Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-child/near-the-foot-of-the-mountain-we-visited-a-yogi-who-dwelled-in-a/)

[Greg Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-child/)

> [The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-child/the-mountains-are-beautiful-but-they-are-not-worth-dying-for/)

[Greg Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-child/)

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