Record of the first ascent of Everest made without the use of oxygen equipment, made in May 1978 by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. Could it be done? Would their blood vessels burst? Would they suffer brain damage leading to madness? Nobody was sure. Messner: 'I would never come here for trying Everest with oxygen. That is not a challenge for me.' A fascinating piece of history, well filmed by Leo Dickinson and Eric Jones (above the South Col Messner used a cine camera to continue the filming), featuring Messner and Habeler's thoughts. The film follows the usual sequence from Namche to Base Camp, through the Icefall, to Camps I, II and III. It also shows historical footage of the pioneering Mallory and Shipton expeditions.

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

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

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

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

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

Marcel is on the eve of his 95th birthday. He trained his two sons, Claude and Yves, in the world of...

On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless...

Documentary on the French Alpine expedition to Hoggar in Algeria, starring Roger Frison-Roche, Raymo...

The film tells the life story of Roman Romancini, one of the most important Brazilian mountaineers, ...

This film by Yannick Bacher tells the passion of brothers Frédéric and François Nicole for climbing....

Boulders in Valais presents the canton of Valais in Switzerland, its bouldering climbing spots and s...

Ueli Steck (Switzerland), Simone Moro (Italy) and Jon Griffith (GB) are not like 95% of the climbers...

The classic film that inspired the National Geographic Series. Join a global quest with world-class ...

Nicolas Jaeger, a French physician specializing in sports and high-altitude physiology, conducted an...

In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumps...

In 1983, three climbers became the first French people to reach the summit of Everest. Among them we...