In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas and Walter Cecchinel, left by truck from Chamonix to Tamanrasset in the desert in Algeria with the aim of climbing some peaks of the Atakor massif including Adaouda and Tizouyag where they do the first of "La Voie de l'ENSA".

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

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

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Ka...

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

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...

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

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

The word Pyreneism was invented by the writer Henri Beraldi at the end of the 19th century. Its defi...

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

1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes priso...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

In 1975, Raymond Renaud, Yves Pollet-Villard, Maurice Gicquel, Maurice Cretton, Jean Coudray, Yvon M...

The two brothers Jean and Pierre Ravier have opened almost all the "classic" (difficult) routes in c...

This documentary by director Claire Billet and historian Christophe Lafaye details the massive and s...

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

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi ...

In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumps...
Participants' account of Wanda Rutkiewicz's last expedition.