In 1959, Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger are said to have been the first to climb the more than 3,000-metre-high granite needle of Cerro Torre. Egger had a fatal accident on the descent and Maestri was unable to prove that they had reached the summit. Reinhold Messner searches for the truth in this documentary.
Rotpunkt documents the advent, the agony and the art of the redpoint through Alex Megos’s efforts to...
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
Once again, Masters of Stone breaks through to the cutting edge of the sport. Harder, Faster, Bolder...
It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his...
In this retrospective tribute, acclaimed filmmaker Jean Walkinshaw hails the 100th anniversary of Mo...
On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...
In 1940 twenty Canadian Beavers were brought to 'Tierra del Fuego' island in southern Patagonia for ...
It is a fact that our winters are less and less cold. Therefore it is harder and harder to get the c...
Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French m...
After years of mass tourism in the Alps, a rethinking is slowly taking place. Whether researchers, a...
In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumps...
Behind every breakthrough in the progression of climbing, there's a true story of doubt and determin...
In a vertiginous sequence, Claude Lelouch's camera follows Patrick Edlinger climbing with his bare h...
Seventy-five years after Brad Washburn, one of the greatest aerial mountain photographers of all tim...
The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" c...
In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the E...
An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their ...