“The men climb the Andes.”

— Peter Shaffer , The Royal Hunt of the Sun

The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Act I, sc. viii. (1964).
Sometimes misquoted as "They cross the Andes".

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English playwright and screenwriter 1926–2016

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