Every spring, tens of thousands of men, women and children leave their villages for a dangerous trek to the high Himalaya to collect Yarsagumbu, a mysterious transmutation between plant and insect. Used in Chinese medicine, it is worth up to 60 000 USD a kilo, more than gold.

In 1975, Raymond Renaud, Yves Pollet-Villard, Maurice Gicquel, Maurice Cretton, Jean Coudray, Yvon M...

High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last san...

Mountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pie...

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...

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

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

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...

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

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

Ningwasum follows two time travellers Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali r...

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

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

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

“Annapurna III – Unclimbed” is an award-winning 12-min documentary featuring the 2016 expedition to ...

Horia Colibasanu is a dentist, father of two boys and elite climber. In 2008, he refused to abandon,...

Denis Urubko is one of the strongest Himalayan climbers of all time: he has climbed all 8000 meter p...