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.
La Cordée de Rêve traces the great alpine journey made from August 2000 to February 2001 by Patrick ...
The true story of Wanda Rutkiewicz, the first woman in the world and the first person from Poland to...
This episode is part of the series "The Conquerors of the Impossible (2/3)". From the 1950s to the 1...
What has four legs, five arms and three heads? The Gimp Monkeys. Craig DeMartino lost his leg after ...
In 1951, the 3rd French expedition to the Himalayas set out to conquer Nanda Devi (7,800 m). The att...
Mountaineering legend Denis Urubko shares his thoughts on what mountaineering is (or isn't). "It's i...
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (194...
An intimate portrait of the nuns of Kala Rongo, a rare and exceptional Buddhist Monastery exclusivel...
Every year, over a thousand climbers try to reach the summit of Mount Everest, with the annual recor...
Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...
Record of the first ascent of Everest made without the use of oxygen equipment, made in May 1978 by ...
Introducing the famous French Spider-Man, Alain Robert, in his home in Bali to reminisce over his pa...
Daulagiri (8167m), Naga Parbat (8125m) and Broad Peak (8051m) are among the 14 peaks in the world. J...
Jean-Christophe Lafaille is the first mountaineer to attempt the solo ascent of the steep Himalayan ...
Thomas de Dorlodot and Horacio Llorens journeyed for a personal adventure across the Himalayan mount...
The guide Gaston Rébuffat, shares with us his view of his job and the nature that surrounds him by s...