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

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

Keeper of the Mountains is a portrait of Elizabeth Hawley and her unlikely key role in the Golden Ag...

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

Lucien Berardini and Edmond Denis are two mountaineers who took part in the French expedition to Aco...

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

A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost ...

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, t...

The story of the ascent of the Aiguille de la République by mountaineers Jacques Fromentin and Miche...

Three years after the 1959 expedition, abandoned 350m from the summit, Lionel Terray leads a new ass...

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

The two brothers Jean and Pierre Ravier have opened almost all the "classic" (difficult) routes in c...

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

The word Pyreneism was invented by the writer Henri Beraldi at the end of the 19th century. Its defi...

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of t...

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

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