Mountaineering Movies

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

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...

Alpinist Michi Wohlleben’s ambition is hard to contain. He performs at the top of his game and is completely enthralled by mountaineering....

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

In the fall of 2021, Tom Livingstone and Matt Glenn traveled to the Khumbu region of Rolwaling, Nepal. Faced with Covid restrictions, limited...

"Demonstration of rock climbing in the Dolomites. Four climbers scramble unroped up a gully on limestone rock. They rope up for a steep chimney,...

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

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

The mountain guide Andreas loves Marie, the hotelier's daughter whom a guest from the city, Alfred, is courting. He thinks about getting rid of his...

A party of six hires a mountain guide to take them over increasingly vertical terrain in this one-reel short subject. When one of the men on the...

Views of a party making the actual ascent of this famous mountain have a much greater interest than the usual scenic film. Commencing with the...

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

"Everest - The Australian Challenge" is a documentary about alpinism that takes place on Everest. It was directed by Tim Macartney-Snape in 1984 and...

It's one of the hardest routes on a north face that's not lacking in them: No Siesta on the Grandes Jorasses, 30 pitches of mixed, ice and rock,...

Four men walk accross the upper part of the Mer de Glace Glacier. All they walk unroped and using ice axes as a cane. The shot belongs to a...

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

In 1988 a party of six Australian mountaineers set sail for Antarctica. Their challenge - to reach and climb Mount Minto, the tallest mountain in the...

A man and a woman in a mountaineering tour on the Blackfoot Glacier in the Glacier National Park. They cross the glacier, negotiating big crevasses...