Όταν ο κινηματογραφιστής Peter Mortimer συναντά έναν νεαρό ορειβάτη που ονομάζεται Marc-André Leclerc, ξεκινά μια εξέλιξη στην ελεύθερη σόλο ορειβασία. Κατά τη διάρκεια του διετούς ταξιδιού στις ψηλές αλπικές κορυφές και τους απότομους παγωμένους καταρράκτες, ο Peter εξερευνά τη σύνδεση του Marc με τη φύση, την ασυμβίβαστη αναζήτησή του για περιπέτεια και τους κινδύνους που παίρνει για να κυνηγήσει το πάθος του.
Η αληθινή ιστορία δύο νέων Άγγλων ορειβατών, του Joe Simpson και του Simon Yates που κατάφεραν να επιζήσουν μετά από μία τρομακτική περιπέτεια που έζησαν στην προσπάθειά τους να αναρριχηθούν στις Περουβιανές Άνδεις. Μία περιπέτεια θέλησης για τη ζωή.
Ένας ορειβάτης θα κάνει τα πάντα για να σώσει την αδερφή του η οποία βρίσκεται παγιδευμένη σε μια από τις μεγαλύτερες κορυφές του κόσμου.
Ο εγωιστής Κρις Τέλλερ, πιέζει τον μεγαλύτερο αδερφό του, έναν ορειβάτη που έχει αποσυρθεί από την ενεργό δράση, να τον συνοδεύσει σε μια επικίνδυνη αλπική αναρρίχηση. Στόχος του, να λεηλατήσει τα πτώματα των θυμάτων ενός αεροπορικού ατυχήματος.
Το 2019, ο Νεπαλέζος ορειβάτης Nirmal "Nims" Purja ξεκίνησε να κάνει το αδιανόητο ανεβαίνοντας στις δεκατέσσερις υψηλότερες κορυφές του κόσμου σε λιγότερο από επτά μήνες. (Το προηγούμενο ρεκόρ ήταν οκτώ χρόνια). Ονόμασε την προσπάθεια «Project Possible 14/7» και την είδε ως έναν τρόπο να εμπνεύσει άλλους να προσπαθήσουν για μεγαλύτερα ύψη σε οποιαδήποτε επιδίωξη. Η ταινία ακολουθεί την ομάδα του καθώς προσπαθούν να αψηφήσουν τους αρνητές και να σπρώξουν τα όρια της ανθρώπινης αντοχής.
Το ντοκιμαντέρ ακολουθεί μια ελίτ ομάδα ορειβατών καθώς αναρριχώνται στο Πτερύγιο του Καρχαρία στο όρος Μέρου της Ινδίας, μία από τις δυσκολότερες κορυφές στον κόσμο.
Σε αυτό το ντοκιμαντέρ, μια ορειβάτισσα από το Νεπάλ ρισκάρει τα πάντα σε μια αναρρίχηση ρεκόρ στο Έβερεστ για να εξασφαλίσει ένα καλύτερο μέλλον για τις κόρες της.
Aoi prefers indoor hobbies and is afraid of heights, but her childhood friend Hinata loves to show off her passion for mountain climbing. As young children they once watched the sunrise from the top of a mountain, and now they've decided to take up mountain climbing in hopes of seeing that sunrise again. They have cooking battles with mountaineering gear, climb small hills in their neighborhood, and meet new mountaineering friends as they learn the ropes of the hobby. When will they finally see that sunrise again?
group of students enrol in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, in Uttarkashi, for undergoing training to climb Mount Everest. Anjali Singh Rawat, who feels neglected by her father, wishes to win his love by fulfilling his dream of climbing Everest. Aakash Joshi is a videographer, who is to make a documentary on Arjun Sabharwal's expedition to Everest. As the plot proceeds a relationship between Anjali and Aakash fruitions
People experience adventures on mountains all around the world. Personalities, fascinated by the world of the mountains, bring us closer to the freedom many people experience in such breezy hights.
"Les Coulisses De L'Exploit" was a French television program of sports information created by Jacques Goddet and Raymond Marcillac, and broadcast on RTF Television then on the first channel of the ORTF from December 13, 1961 to August 16, 1972. The principle of this program is to report on sports news but also to meet men and women performing exceptional feats. According to Raymond Marcillac: "Competitive sport is not our only field of action. It never has been. We want to discover beings whose life is enriching, exhilarating; men who have accomplished acts that can be offered to our admiration without reluctance."
Every fall the REEL ROCK Film Tour brings the year's most exciting new climbing films to live audiences around the world. For 2010, the tour features six amazing short films, with stories from the cutting edge of alpine climbing, bouldering, sport climbing, and traditional climbing.
Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Tartarin de Tarascon (published in 1885) and Porto Tarascona (published in 1890). Seeing his position as president of the Alpine Club of Tarascon threatened because of his fellow citizen Costecalde, who questions his abilities as a mountaineer, Tartarin travels to the Bernese Alps to accomplish a memorable feat. In 1968, a television transposition of Tartarino sulle Alpi was broadcast by Rai, directed by Edmo Fenoglio, with Tino Buazzelli as the protagonist. The series was broadcast between 06/09/968 and 09/27/1968.
Les Carnets de l'Aventure is a cult French television program of adventure and extreme sports documentaries broadcast on Saturday afternoons on Antenne 2 (France 2) between 1980 and 1989. At the beginning of the 80s, in full transformation of mountain activities into high level sports, Les Carnets de L'Aventure revealed from to the country that invented alpinism to the whole world the "French-Touch" of these talents of the new approach to the mountains and its new disciplines. Patrick Edlinger and solo free climbing with the film La Vie au Bout des Doigts, directed by Jean-Paul Janssen in 1982. But also his brother in arms Patrick Berhault, Christophe Profit in the solo ascent of Les Drus, the trilogies of Jean-Marc Boivin in hang-gliding, the Himalayan expoits of Marc Batard but also those of Patrick Gabarrou, opener of routes in the Alps and elsewhere, Patrick Vallencant and his extreme skiing, Paul-Émile Victor and many others...
Chamonix in the 1930s was a resort where a cosmopolitan, fashionable and sporting society thronged, in search of novelties and thrills found in mountaineering. These people rub shoulders with the Chamoniards but do not meet except on the trails of Mont-Blanc. The accident of Joseph, the patriarch of Servettaz, guides from generation to generation, marked the spirits. It is his son Zian who decides to take up the torch. Married to Bianca, the daughter of the wealthy Milanese industrialist who was partly responsible for her father's death, Zian lives out her great love story - a threesome - with the mountain always remaining the most demanding mistress. Tired of the agonizing expectations and loneliness during her husband's ascents, Bianca returns to Italy, Zian joins her, but society life is not his world, he returns to Chamonix. During an outing in the mountains, Zian falls into a crevasse. Bianca, alerted by a presentiment, returns to the one she loves above all...
The life of the legendary mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, from his lonely childhood, to the man he became - Hillary the climber - a man that conquered Mt Everest, a man loved by a nation.
First Ascent is Sender Films' groundbreaking 6-part series that takes you to the cutting edge of adventure. Produced over two years on five continents, First Ascent follows the greatest climbers to majestic locations around the globe on their quests to redefine what is possible in the mountains.
Everest veteran Ben Webster leads a group of climbers through every aspect of a daring summit attempt. This is the ultimate reality program that explores the trials of a team climbing the world's highest mountain. And, for the first time ever, feature footage will be shot from the perspective of each climber. Four climbers, four cameras. Who will make it to the top? Who will survive?
