George Kennedy credited as playing...
Ben Bowman
- Ben Bowman: Wanna Beer?
- Jonathan Hemlock: You gonna call room service?
- Ben Bowman: We got beer.
- Jonathan Hemlock: If you hauled beer up this rock you're insane!
- Ben Bowman: I may be insane, but I'm not stupid. I didn't carry it, you did! It's in your pack.
- Jonathan Hemlock: Christ, I ought'a throw you off this pillar! Besides, it's warm.
- Ben Bowman: Oh I'm sorry, I thought you'd draw the line on haulin' ice.
- Ben Bowman: What got into Jean-Paul?
- Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: I don't know. A little jumpy, I guess.
- Ben Bowman: You been jumping his wife?
- Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: No, why?
- Ben Bowman: You sure?
- Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: Well, I think it's something I'd know.
- Jonathan Hemlock: Why did she do it?
- Ben Bowman: Oldest reason in the world.
- Jonathan Hemlock: Love?
- Ben Bowman: Money!
- Woman Journalist: Tell me, Mr. Bowman, in your opinion do these men climb to prove their manhood, or is it more a matter of compensating for inferiority feelings?
- Ben Bowman: Lady, why don't you go get yourself screwed. It would do you a lot of good.
- Ben Bowman: This is were I turn back.
- Jonathan Hemlock: Thank God.
- Ben Bowman: Not you, you need the work. George there will take you on up.
- Jonathan Hemlock: It's a girl.
- Ben Bowman: A lot of people notice that.
- Ben Bowman: You know what? Way down deep you've got the makings of a real bad ass. I don't know that I'd like to be alone on a desert island with you if there was a shortage of food.
- Jonathan Hemlock: No worry, you're a friend.
- Ben Bowman: You ever had any enemies?
- Jonathan Hemlock: A few.
- Ben Bowman: Any of them still around?
- [Bowman watches the climb through his telescope]
- British Tourist: I say, old boy, are you using your scope? Do you mind if my wife has a peek.
- British Tourist's Wife: Darling, tell him we'll pay for it.
- British Tourist: We can pay for it, you know.
- Ben Bowman: Get out of here. Either of you friggin' vampires ever touch this telescope, you're gonna need surgery to get it out of your ass!
- Ben Bowman: A Foehn: warm air, then rain, then a freeze like all in a flash...... that entire mother of a rock is gonna be covered in ice but you can't walk on it, you can't see through it or find a crack in the rocks to drive your peton into because the snow is all glazed over, but you'll be able to drop through up to your neck at any time.