Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.

Brilliant Moon chronicles the life of the writer, poet, and meditation master Khyentse Rinpoche, one...

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

High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last san...

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his l...

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

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

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

Explores achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving t...

It is a fact that our winters are less and less cold. Therefore it is harder and harder to get the c...

A tragic expedition to the Himalayas, told by the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who lost his b...

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

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
27-year-old German alpinist Jost Kobusch wants to climb Everest, alone, without oxygen and in Winter...