- Neergaard: [at podium] Remember the single most important task for an explorer. When you travel into unknown lands to discover new parts of the global, it is to ensure the records of your discoveries are delivered back safe and sound, with or without you. Otherwise it is all in vain. The blood, and sweat, and tears, would all be for nothing.
- Ejnar Mikkelsen: Iversen, Listen, the dogs work for you. Remember that. Out on the ice, each dog can pull 100 pounds of weight from the start. Once that 100 pounds has been eaten, well that dog becomes surplus to requirement. Shoot the worst dog. Feed him to the others.
- Ejnar Mikkelsen: So Iversen, don't become best friends.