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.

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

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

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

An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their ...

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

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...

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

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

After years of mass tourism in the Alps, a rethinking is slowly taking place. Whether researchers, a...

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

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

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

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

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their att...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...

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

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