As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and rebellious young Karma (Gurgon Kyap). Tinle tries to maintain his clout and preserve obedience to ancient customs when Karma challenges the old man's power.

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

Following in the footsteps of his father, Folco Felzani embarks on an epic journey on foot in search...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...

Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base cam...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths ...

A tragic expedition to the Himalayas, told by the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who lost his b...

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

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climat...

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

A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing fathe...

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

Tsering, a 10-year-old boy, lives somewhere in the Himalayas. Every day, he travels seven kilometres...

"Kagbeni" transplants the famous horror story, "The Monkey's Paw", to the mountains of Nepal. Krishn...

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himal...
The Himalayan mountain Makalu, located in Nepal, is the fifth highest mountain in the world. In 1973...