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.

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

As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grai...

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds ...

Paragot and Bérardini: two climbers who fill all climbing enthusiasts with admiration. In Fontainebl...

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

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

They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the worl...

In 1961 the southern face of the Central Pillar of Mont Blanc was still unclimbed. Two roped parties...

Established in 1821, the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix is the first and largest guides' company i...

Major Ben McBride organizes a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend who has been ...

Directed by Jean-Marc Boivin in 1977, Glace Extrême is a documentary about mountaineering and extrem...

Heinz Mariacher got closer to the mountains by climbing the most important peaks of the Dolomites. H...

Maurice Barrard and Liliane Bontemps met in 1973 in Peru. Four years later, they are married and sta...
A vast white wilderness that stretches across the south of our planet; a giant natural laboratory th...

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

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