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.
Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top o...
Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid ...
Following in the footsteps of his father, Folco Felzani embarks on an epic journey on foot in search...
High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last san...
Three years after the 1959 expedition, abandoned 350m from the summit, Lionel Terray leads a new ass...
Mountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pie...
In 1975, Raymond Renaud, Yves Pollet-Villard, Maurice Gicquel, Maurice Cretton, Jean Coudray, Yvon M...
At an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, Sking is one of the most isolated villages in the Himalayan r...
A man walks in more or less familiar places, walks there as if crossing unknown lands, never encount...
The highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayan range is far reaching, spanning thousands of ...
Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...
As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbin...
Horia Colibasanu is a dentist, father of two boys and elite climber. In 2008, he refused to abandon,...
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...
For the past 26 years 16 expeditions have tried and failed to climb one of Pakistan's 8,000 meter pe...
Thomas de Dorlodot and Horacio Llorens journeyed for a personal adventure across the Himalayan mount...
This episode is part of the series "The Conquerors of the Impossible (2/3)". From the 1950s to the 1...