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.
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top o...

Every spring, tens of thousands of men, women and children leave their villages for a dangerous trek...

In his new film, Erwin Wagenhofer is looking for the good and beautiful in this world.

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

Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid ...

Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...

A man walks in more or less familiar places, walks there as if crossing unknown lands, never encount...
A documentary film about the expedition of Czechoslovak mountaineers led by Vladimír Procházka to Mo...

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

As the crucial question arises of the future succession of the Dalai Lama, we take a look back at th...

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

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

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

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" c...

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

Following in the footsteps of his father, Folco Felzani embarks on an epic journey on foot in search...