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.

Each year, groups of Tibetan children secretly flee their homeland over the Himalayas to reach schoo...

Keeper of the Mountains is a portrait of Elizabeth Hawley and her unlikely key role in the Golden Ag...

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

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

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of t...

Lucien Berardini and Edmond Denis are two mountaineers who took part in the French expedition to Aco...

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

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...

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

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