
Seventy-five years after Brad Washburn, one of the greatest aerial mountain photographers of all tim...

The climbing couple Heinz Mariacher and Luisa Iovane abandon their usual winter training spot to go ...

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...

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

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

Portrait of Jean-Claude Droyer, a famous French climber and mountain guide. He is known for having p...

The word Pyreneism was invented by the writer Henri Beraldi at the end of the 19th century. Its defi...

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

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

In 1973, 6 guides from the National Ski and Mountaineering School (ENSA), including Charles Daubas a...

The two brothers Jean and Pierre Ravier have opened almost all the "classic" (difficult) routes in c...

A documentary portrait of the legend Eric Escoffier at the height of his mountaineering career. A tr...

Established in 1821, the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix is the first and largest guides' company i...

In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumps...
Participants' account of Wanda Rutkiewicz's last expedition.

Behind every breakthrough in the progression of climbing, there's a true story of doubt and determin...

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