34 Movie Quotes about Mountain Climbing (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Feb 19, 2026

Memorable quotes about mountain climbing, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Well, don't caress it. Climb it.

Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull in The Comedy of Terrors

22 Thought the whole point of climbing was hunting.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

23 This is a big man. You're the only one who's climbed it. How'd you do it? -Guts, skill, determination, all that sort of stuff.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock; George Kennedy as Ben Bowman in The Eiger Sanction

24 Congratulations, old buddy. You got her cherry. -What do you mean? -You're the first one ever to climb up here.

George Kennedy as Ben Bowman in The Eiger Sanction

25 We can't climb without some risks. Perhaps the young face these risks more easily.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

26 Good weather, bad weather. Now or later, any time's good for climbing.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

27 We'll make it. -I don't think so. But we shall continue with style.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

28 The thing about climbing is, you never look down.

Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

29 Then we can climb Mount Bedford and smell the pines and watch the sunrise against the peaks, and we'll stay up there the whole night, and everybody'll be talking. There'll be a terrific scandal.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

30 It might get rough again unless we can climb on top.

Robert Hays as Ted Striker in Airplane (1980)