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.

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French m...
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top o...

Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid ...

René Collet, skier member of the French team, guides a friend from the summit of the Aiguille du Mid...

In this retrospective tribute, acclaimed filmmaker Jean Walkinshaw hails the 100th anniversary of Mo...

Kick off the season with Warren Miller’s Timeless, presented by Volkswagen, as we celebrate 70 years...

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

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" c...

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

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

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

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

Rotpunkt documents the advent, the agony and the art of the redpoint through Alex Megos’s efforts to...

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

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

Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhol...