“- Jon Krakauer: It hurts. It's dangerous. I gotta ask the question, you know I do. Why?
- Doug Hansen: I have kids. They see a regular guy can follow impossible dreams, maybe they'll do the same.”
Michael Kelly - Jon Krakauer
John Hawkes - Doug Hansen

“Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.”
Michael Landon

“Mom, he's fine, he just fell down a mountain.”
Scott Bairstow - Marty

“To live in a country where you can take an ugly old mountain and put faces on it, faces of great Americans who did so much to make our country super great. Well, that makes me Rebecca Leeman, proud to be an American.”
Denise Richards - Rebecca 'Becky' Ann Leeman

“- Harry Dunne: I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.
- Lloyd Christmas: I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of shit, man.”
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas