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...

Marcel is on the eve of his 95th birthday. He trained his two sons, Claude and Yves, in the world of...

The Tyrolean David Lama has climbed an 8a route already at the age of ten, and he has become several...
Three mountaineers meet at the foot of the north face of the Three Peaks in the Dolomites to climb i...

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

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

In every sport there are men, myths and legends. In the world of rock climbing, there is only one na...

Portrait of Jean-Claude Droyer, a famous French climber and mountain guide. He is known for having p...

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

A tragic expedition to the Himalayas, told by the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who lost his b...

The climbing couple Heinz Mariacher and Luisa Iovane abandon their usual winter training spot to go ...

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

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their att...

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

1967: Two of the world's best climbers, Yvon Chouinard and Royal Robbins, tackle the west face of Se...

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

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