Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child Answers Copy Share Image
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 Adventure Copy Share Image
Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some… — Greg Child Abandon Copy Share Image
The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back… — Greg Child Adventure Copy Share Image
Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our… — Greg Child Boulders Copy Share Image
The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for. — Greg Child Beautiful Copy Share Image