Chris Bonington Quotes

I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

Chris Bonington

• Climbing
• Beyond
• To Go

If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.

Chris Bonington

• Young
• Partner
• Seeing

I think I shall try to take up climbing professionally. It’s something I love, and I think I am good at, even if it does not lead very far.

Chris Bonington

• Love
• Climbing
• Professionally

The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.

Chris Bonington

• Enemy
• Wind
• Mind-destroying

I felt sympathy with the rock; I found that my body somehow slipped into balance naturally, without any conscious thought on my part.

Chris Bonington

• Rock
• Body
• Balance

There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

Chris Bonington

• Covered
• Granite
• Groan

I was desperate enough to agree

Chris Bonington

• Agree
• Desperate
• I Was

I don’t think I have really got much of a vocation for peacetime soldiering

Chris Bonington

• Got
• Vocation
• Soldiering

I’m interested in selling things, and the whole process of marketing.

Chris Bonington

• Marketing
• Interested
• Selling