Answers Quote by Greg Child

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop…

— Hermann Buhl

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.

— Adam Ondra

Why climb Mt. Everest? Because it's there.

— Higher Grounds

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above…

— Joseph Jaworski

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

— Jules Michelet

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

— Michael Caine

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

— George Leigh Mallory

As you climb, you grow deeper in the foundation, so it makes our foundation deeper.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top. But no one knows where the top is.

— Su Shi

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

— George Leigh Mallory

In particular, with climbing, we're climbing on these surfaces that Mother Nature has created. We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's…

— Chris Sharma