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.

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

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain ...

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

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic ...

In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the E...

A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.

Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work...

French alpinist Charles Dubouloz’s attempt at a rarely repeated route on the fabled north face of th...

Ningwasum follows two time travellers Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali r...

A Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale span...

High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last san...

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

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

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

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" c...