In 1984 Ron Fawcett, is one of the most athletic climbers, he takes pleasure in taking up the challenge of climbing "free" without artificial aids, the equipment and rope being used only for safety, a revolution at the time. The documentary is part of "Pushing The Limits", a 10-episode series by Leo Dickinson documenting sporting adventures that push the limits of human endurance. Each episode focused on an extreme sport, ranging from rock climbing to hot air ballooning.

In the Finnish forests was an unclimbed route called the Lappnor project. It was considered to be th...

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

In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumps...

Silbergeier is a long pitch route (8b+ max) built by Pietro del Pra in 1993 and organized by Beat Ka...

A look at Alain Robert, dubbed the Human Spider, who scales some of the world's tallest buildings wi...

In 2004 X1 Sports took a band of intrepid climbers to Croatia . Their mission was to find some of th...

King Lines follows Chris Sharma on his search for the planet's greatest climbs. From South American ...

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

A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differen...

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

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

Filmed chronicle by mountain filmmaker Mario Fantin, of the 1964-1965 expedition of the Italian moun...

In a battle for El Cap’s coveted Nose speed record, rock legends Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold go ...

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

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

In late summer 2003, climbers from Britain, Sweden, and Finland descended upon the sleepy archipelag...

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

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