Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands Mulets refuge and the Grand Plateau refuge. This is the very first successfully filmed ascent. Joseph Vallot (1854-1925), rich heir of Lodève in Occitania. He devotes part of his fortune to the observation of the Alps, sometimes opposing the scientific community. He built an observatory, still standing today.

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Ka...

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French m...

At the peak of her career as a rock climber, Catherine Destivelle goes to the United States to get a...

In 1975, Raymond Renaud, Yves Pollet-Villard, Maurice Gicquel, Maurice Cretton, Jean Coudray, Yvon M...

In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas a...

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain ...

Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base cam...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

Mountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pie...

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of t...

The story of the ascent of the Aiguille de la République by mountaineers Jacques Fromentin and Miche...

Three years after the 1959 expedition, abandoned 350m from the summit, Lionel Terray leads a new ass...

The two brothers Jean and Pierre Ravier have opened almost all the "classic" (difficult) routes in c...

Five young Italian climbers, Paolo Grunanger, Lorenzo Marimonti, Pietro Meciani, Lodovico Gaetani an...

At the Limit is a documentary about extreme climbing. In this sports documentary, Pepe Danquart show...

For decades, an elite handful of climbers have competed for the coveted speed record on the 3,000-fo...