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.

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his l...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...

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 ...

Horia Colibasanu is a dentist, father of two boys and elite climber. In 2008, he refused to abandon,...

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

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

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

A representation of queer and feminist imagery that was mainly shot in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, ...

A documentary about the first Czech climber Klára Kolouchová, who reached the top of K2. A film abou...

The latest groundbreaking films from Big Up Productions and Sender Films. Featuring Yuji Harayama, D...

The complete 2011 REEL ROCK Film Tour: Six astounding short films covering every style of climbing o...

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

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

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
27-year-old German alpinist Jost Kobusch wants to climb Everest, alone, without oxygen and in Winter...

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

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