We've all heard of Mount Everest, but we don't know who were the first two men to reach its summit. This vintage Oscar-…
Mark Inglis reached the summit of Everest with both legs amputated in 2006. But his achievement was tarnished by allege…
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
American Loneliness tells the story of filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay’s solitary journey into one of the most attractive area…
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …
While her mother cuts tea in a nearby field, Bahri and Damla, two children from a small village in the Turkish mountain…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
A Paralympic medalist and a quadriplegic man come together to trek thirty-five kilometers over the Tibetan plateau, a c…
Renato Zucchelli is the last travelling shepherd left in a metropolis, and he has a dream: to lead his flock of sheep t…
Mountains have been a natural haven for men for thousands of years. But life there is hard, difficult, slow, repetitive…
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin no…
On the south face of Annapurna, at 7,400 metres, Iñaki Ochoa de Olza is dying. His rope companion sounds the alarm. And…
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