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.

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

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

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...

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

The word Pyreneism was invented by the writer Henri Beraldi at the end of the 19th century. Its defi...

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

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

Lucien Berardini and Edmond Denis are two mountaineers who took part in the French expedition to Aco...

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

Mountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pie...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, ...

Catherine Destivelle has deservedly become the most famous female climber in the world. She rose to ...

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

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

Adventure in Bleau is a documentary about bouldering that takes place in Fontainebleau. Directed by ...

The Center Of The Universe chronicles four days in the life of German climber Alexander Huber in Yos...