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.

A documentary about New Zealanders in Antarctica: researching International Geophysical Year, and su...

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

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

Further adventures of the explorers gang of the TV series, encountering ape men, dinosaurs and a tri...

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their att...

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

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...

TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by...

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, ...

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

As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbin...

Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the ...

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

Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he...

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

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was made on July 14, 1865 by Edward Whymper, Francis Douglas, Cha...

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...

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