The documentary gives a detailed description of the conquest of K2 climbing from the north edge on the Chinese side of the mountain. The climb - that proceede well for the first days without too much difficulty even because the weather was good - was extremely hard and took over 30 days in July and August.

At an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, Sking is one of the most isolated villages in the Himalayan r...

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

A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could gr...

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to hav...

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

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, be...

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...

A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his ...

Yûichirô Miura, the man who skied down Everest, journeys to an 8,000 foot mountain in the midst of a...

A tragic expedition to the Himalayas, told by the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who lost his b...

Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the...

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountain...

In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd h...

Horia Colibasanu is a dentist, father of two boys and elite climber. In 2008, he refused to abandon,...

Before tackling the ascent of urban buildings, Alain Robert was considered one of the best specialis...

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich sour...

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where the...