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.

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

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

A German expedition is in the African jungles on an unidentified misson. During this mission one of ...

The highest mountain range in the world, the Himalayan range is far reaching, spanning thousands of ...

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French m...

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

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologis...

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

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

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

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

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths ...

When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them of...

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

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

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

Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base cam...