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.

When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she ...

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

An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. (The English-language ver...

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

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

In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumps...

This is Gaston Rebuffat's fourth film, in which, with several close friends, he discovers the sublim...

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

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

Buddhist monk and photographer Matthieu Picard as he returns to the Asian country in the Himalayas w...
Participants' account of Wanda Rutkiewicz's last expedition.

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...

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

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...

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

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

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