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

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…

- Chris Bonington

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 wer…

- Chris Bonington

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

- Chris Bonington