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...
A biopic of Tenzing Norgay, the legendary Nepalese-Indian mountaineer who summited Mount Everest wit...
Seventy-five years after Brad Washburn, one of the greatest aerial mountain photographers of all tim...
History of the first ascent of Aconcagua by the south face in February 1954 by the French shock team...
At the peak of her career as a rock climber, Catherine Destivelle goes to the United States to get a...
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British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where the...
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René Collet, skier member of the French team, guides a friend from the summit of the Aiguille du Mid...
A filmmaker's insight into the biggest gathering on earth -the Kumbh Mela.
A 3D feature film about Sir Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953...
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a ...
A Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale span...
Mountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pie...
The word Pyreneism was invented by the writer Henri Beraldi at the end of the 19th century. Its defi...
Based on true events, renowned mountaineer Um Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve ...
How do you brave acute mountain sickness? We talk to researchers, doctors and mountaineers about a s...
The first filmed winter ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn. To set the scene, the tragic sto...
Breathtaking climbing sequences. As a guide, none other than "The Rock Queen" Catherine Destivelle. ...
After suffering a catastrophic and almost fatal spinal cord injury, professional rugby player Ed Jac...