- Jean Antoine Carrel: [to Whymper] The mountains are free to every man. You won, and I am glad of it.
- [they shake hands]
- His Mother: [to Reverend Hudson] You're as bad as him - you ought to know better with that collar. Climbing, climbing always climbing. You want to get to heaven before your time?
- Giordano: Don't you realise what the conquest of this mountain would mean to your village. Development, new roads... later, perhaps - even a railway!