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.

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

Filmed chronicle by mountain filmmaker Mario Fantin, of the 1964-1965 expedition of the Italian moun...

It is a fact that our winters are less and less cold. Therefore it is harder and harder to get the c...

Before tackling the ascent of urban buildings, Alain Robert was considered one of the best specialis...

French alpinist Charles Dubouloz’s attempt at a rarely repeated route on the fabled north face of th...

Behind every breakthrough in the progression of climbing, there's a true story of doubt and determin...

For nearly three years, director Dina Khreino interviewed world-class mountain climbing athletes, li...

This is Gaston Rebuffat's fourth film, in which, with several close friends, he discovers the sublim...

In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the E...

Breathtaking climbing sequences. As a guide, none other than "The Rock Queen" Catherine Destivelle. ...

After reading the book "Guide to Hoggar Climbing," guide Pierre Agresti and his wife Isabelle Agrest...

Seventy-five years after Brad Washburn, one of the greatest aerial mountain photographers of all tim...

Following in the footsteps of Frison Roche, 7 climbers explore the main Hoggar massifs in Algeria. T...

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...

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

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

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