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.
Every year, over a thousand climbers try to reach the summit of Mount Everest, with the annual recor...
In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch p...
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the Afr...
The classic film that inspired the National Geographic Series. Join a global quest with world-class ...
The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminati...
Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with f...
An experimental documentary composed of photos taken by the director on a trip to Japan in July 2019...
The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, ...
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are...
Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountai...
We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving,...
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top o...
Shot in the Dark is a documentary on three blind photographers: Pete Eckert, Sonia Soberats and Bruc...
May 25, 1996 - Bruce Herrod, a South African mountaineer reached the summit of Everest at 5 p.m. On ...
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S...
Short film about "Yuyanapaq", the photo exhibition of the armed conflict in Peru, at Casa Riva Agüer...