Mountaineering Movies

Blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and his team's highly successful ascent of Mount Everest along with four other remarkable milestones on the mountain....

At the peak of her career as a rock climber, Catherine Destivelle goes to the United States to get away from the competitions and to recharge...

Solving for Z explores IFMGA guide and father Zahan Billimoria’s relationship to the intoxicating highs and crushing blows of a life in the...

In the Shadow of the Mountain is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Southern Alps. It was directed by Hugh Barnard in 2011. It...

Guido Magnone designs cardboard boxes by hand for his parents' small business. A painter friend loves his brushwork and pushes him to attend the...

"Verso L'Ignoto" (Towards the Unknown) is an Italian documentary that follows mountaineer Daniele Nardi and his team in their attempt to achieve the...

A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.

Mountaineers Roberto Sorgato and Ignazio Piussi relive their 1961 adventure: the first winter ascent of the north face of Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, a...

Joža Čop, an illiterate man of the people, earned great respect from his fellow compatriots. He once famously said: "I’ve never...

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

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

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Documentary on mountain climbing in the Swiss and Italian Alps.

Tom and Mark are a close-knit rope team. While Mark dreams of Nanga Parbat, Tom furnishes the new house with his girlfriend Franziska. Tom has a...

Avid for steep slopes, Marco Siffredi (1979-2002) obeys only one rule: not to fall. This gifted kid with hair sometimes blond peroxidized, green or...

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

In The Call of the Mountain (L’appel de la montagne) a couple are childhood sweethearts who are separated, she marries a rich man and he...