An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.

A story of chopped fingers, fun, friendship and the First Ascent of Kunyang Chhish East (7,400m). Fo...

One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern US nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of ...

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

Five young Italian climbers, Paolo Grunanger, Lorenzo Marimonti, Pietro Meciani, Lodovico Gaetani an...

For decades, an elite handful of climbers have competed for the coveted speed record on the 3,000-fo...

At the peak of her career as a rock climber, Catherine Destivelle goes to the United States to get a...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French m...

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Ka...

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

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...
Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The e...

In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favres...

Made for screening at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane Washington, USA, which h...

Seventy-five years after Brad Washburn, one of the greatest aerial mountain photographers of all tim...

In the Finnish forests was an unclimbed route called the Lappnor project. It was considered to be th...