In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain after himself, but who claimed he had discovered the Ice Age and went on to become one of the century's most virulent, most influential racists.

In 2011, photographer Tanja Hollander decided to visit each one of her Facebook "friends" (all 626 o...

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

In this retrospective tribute, acclaimed filmmaker Jean Walkinshaw hails the 100th anniversary of Mo...

For decades, an elite handful of climbers have competed for the coveted speed record on the 3,000-fo...

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they c...

A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanz...

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Ka...

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one noto...

It's one of the hardest routes on a north face that's not lacking in them: No Siesta on the Grandes ...

The French Alpine Club's film about the French expedition to conquer Makalu (8481m) via the west pil...

Is the solution to Switzerland's future to integrate Germany into the confederation? After all, like...

It is a fact that our winters are less and less cold. Therefore it is harder and harder to get the c...

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet,...

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various c...

A climatologist, a physicist, and a volcanologist set out to conquer the highest peak in the Alps. T...

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

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching f...