Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid with hair sometimes blond peroxidized, green or blue clashed in his valley: Chamonix, mecca of mountaineering. His thing was to go up and down on a snowboard. . 90 minutes September 8, 2002, altitude 8848 meters, rare oxygen, his head already brushing the sky and his snowboard running, Marco Siffredi, 23, rushes from the summit of Everest in the Horbein corridor and its slopes at 50 degrees . A year earlier, he had already made the first descent of the mountain on a snowboard. But there remains another corridor… more direct. It's not a challenge, just a reason to be... However, that day, at the top of the roof of the world, his trace is lost...

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

As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grai...

Paragot and Bérardini: two climbers who fill all climbing enthusiasts with admiration. In Fontainebl...

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologis...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the worl...

In 1961 the southern face of the Central Pillar of Mont Blanc was still unclimbed. Two roped parties...

Established in 1821, the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix is the first and largest guides' company i...

Directed by Jean-Marc Boivin in 1977, Glace Extrême is a documentary about mountaineering and extrem...

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himal...

Heinz Mariacher got closer to the mountains by climbing the most important peaks of the Dolomites. H...

Maurice Barrard and Liliane Bontemps met in 1973 in Peru. Four years later, they are married and sta...

Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the...

A Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale span...

1967: Two of the world's best climbers, Yvon Chouinard and Royal Robbins, tackle the west face of Se...