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.

Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European...

Born in 1944 in South Tyrol, Reinhold Messner was introduced to climbing peaks by his father as a ch...

The documentary focuses on the annual Mani Rimdu festival of Tibet and Nepal, an event which encapsu...

A 6-year-old Tibetan boy leaves his family and flees to a refugee camp in northern India.

Vivian Bruchez explores his backyard on several steep adventures in a winter of exceptional snow, i...

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

At an altitude of 4500 meters, on the highest plateaus of Karnak in the Himalayan région of Ladakh, ...

It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his...

In a vertiginous sequence, Claude Lelouch's camera follows Patrick Edlinger climbing with his bare h...

What compels a man to push the limits of what is attainable ever higher? After thirty years of relen...

July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and...

A filmmaker's insight into the biggest gathering on earth -the Kumbh Mela.