“We were saved. Nando and Canessa breached the Andes and we were saved. Later a group went back and buried the bodies. They built a rough stone altar by the grave, and over it they placed an iron cross. There's nothing more I can tell you. We were brought together by a grand experience.”
John Malkovich - Narrator

“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

“- Robert Caulfield: Why does he have to fly so low?
- Sergeant Dominick Benti: We're not low. The ground's high.”
Gene Hackman - Robert Caulfield
M. Emmet Walsh - Sergeant Dominick Benti