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.
A documentary film about the expedition of Czechoslovak mountaineers led by Vladimír Procházka to Mo...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

The highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayan range is far reaching, spanning thousands of ...

The explorers Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice climb the remote and little known mountain Puncak Mandala...

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

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 ...

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

Catherine Destivelle has deservedly become the most famous female climber in the world. She rose to ...

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...

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

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

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

At an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, Sking is one of the most isolated villages in the Himalayan r...

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