Mountaineering Movies

Tourists leaving the Bear Hotel, Kandersteg, to cross the Gemmi. Many ladies of the party are seen mounting the hardy ponies at the hotel front, and,...

Joseph Vallot, geographer, naturalist and mountaineer born in 1854 in Lodève, was a visionary man, full of humor and whose curiosity was...

For the documentary series Les Ascensions Célèbres, Denis Ducroz has created this historical reconstruction of the first ascent of the...

Morag believes that nothing should come between anyone and getting out there in nature; as a deaf climber constantly pushing the limits of...

Symon Welfringer charts his course like others draw a line of paint. A mountaineer and meteorologist, he is in perpetual conversation with the...

"Accident dans les Alpes" is a documentary about alpinism. It was produced in 1908.

Nicolas Jaeger, a French physician specializing in sports and high-altitude physiology, conducted an experiment by spending two months on the highest...

"This documentary from local station KING-TV in Seattle, Washington, examines the history of Mount Rainier through narration, interviews,...

Rock Auvergne is a documentary film about the history of climbing in Auvergne which introduces us, through interviews and archive footage, to its...

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands...

Heinz Mariacher got closer to the mountains by climbing the most important peaks of the Dolomites. He then devoted himself to free climbing, before...

A mountaineering tour on a glacier in the Alps. The film follows a group of mountaineers as they leave the hostel. Then they climb up fixed ladders...

A program in which David Wilkie demonstrates various winter sports, like alpine climbing and skiing in the Cairngorms. In one of the segments, John...

In 1910, the Parisian Albert Chapon and the Genevan Louis Arlaud filmed the ascent of Portjengrat (3,654 m) in the Penine Alps. The resulting film...

Italian documentary on mountain climbing.

This documentary chronicles the lives of two mountaineers from Nepal who have left the high Himalaya in search of "success" in New York City.

The Trail of Toni - Toni Gobbi from Citizen to Mountain Guide is a documentary on Antonio, known as Toni, Gobbi (1914-1970), a renowned Italian...

The climbers Jean Jacques and André Lambert, accompanied by the photographer Jean Lozeron, climb the great ridge of Salève, in...

Documentary featuring the ascent of the Matterhorn (Cervino) completed in 1911 by Mario Piacenza along the guides of Valtournenche Joseph Gaspard and...

"A rock climbing traverse in the Gastlosen Massif. Arrival of the train to Saanenmöser, three men walk to reach the wall. Crossing the rock face...