Cast
- Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker, a former mountain climber and rescue ranger haunted by his failure to save Sarah, the girlfriend of his best friend, Hal Tucker
- John Lithgow as Eric Qualen, a sadistic former military intelligence officer now serves as a leader of the gang of thieves trying to rob $100 million dollars from the U.S. Treasury
- Michael Rooker as Hal Tucker, Gabe's best friend and a mountain ranger who blames Gabe for his failure to save Sarah
- Janine Turner as Jessie Deighan, Gabe's girlfriend who works in the same mountain search-and-rescue group whom Gabe has become distant from since his failure to save Sarah
- Rex Linn as Richard Travers, an U.S. Treasury agent who is a double agent working with Qualen
- Caroline Goodall as Kristel, Qualen's pilot and seemingly companion
- Leon Robinson as Kynette, Qualen's brutal main henchman
- Craig Fairbrass as Delmar, Qualen's sadistic ex-soccer player-turned-henchman.
- Gregory Scott Cummins as Ryan, Qualen's henchman
- Denis Forest as Heldon, Qualen's henchman
- Michelle Joyner as Sarah, Hal's ill-fated girlfriend who dies falling 4,000 feet after Gabe failed to save her
- Max Perlich as Evan, a thrill-seeking young man who is friends with Gabe and Hal
- Paul Winfield as Walter Wright, A treasury agent who discovered Qualen's plot to rob the money from the U.S. Treasury
- Ralph Waite as Frank, a search-and-rescue pilot working for Gabe, Jessie and Hal
- Trey Brownell as Brett, Evan's friend who is also a thrill-seeker
- Vyto Ruginis as Mathesen
- John Finn as Agent Michaels
- Jeff McCarthy as Pilot
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