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...

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

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

A documentary portrait of the legend Eric Escoffier at the height of his mountaineering career. A tr...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

At the peak of her career as a rock climber, Catherine Destivelle goes to the United States to get a...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...

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