Mountaineering Documentary Movies

"The Dachstein, 2,995 m high and exactly on the border between Styria and Upper Austria - and thus the highest mountain of both federal states. The...

Richard Wellington leads Western State Collegers from Gunnison up to Gothic Mountain in the Elk Mountains, Colorado. The film is an episode of the...

The film describes the activities of a rock-climbing Explorer Unit from Phoenix, Arizona - the Kachinas. First their equipment and techniques are...

Gure Himalaya is a documentary about the mountaineering exploits of the Iñurrategi brothers between 1990 and 1998 — from climbing Pumori...

Marcel Ichac accompanied the mountaineer Armand Charlet, in 1943, in the repetition of the first crossing of the Aiguilles du Diable that the guide...

Folows Sheffield climber, Paul Nunn as he attempts the north face of the Ogre (Baintha Brakk) in the Karakorum Himalayas on the borders of Pakistan,...

The ascent of the Zinalrothorn filmed by Frederick Burlingham in September 1916. Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the...

A mountaineering tour on the Franz Josef Glacier, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After leaving the Fox Glacier Hotel, two...

Short version of the film 'Eingeschneit in Lager IV', released for the home market. The film shows images of the 1938 German expedition to Nanga...

Documentary on one of the first editions of the Trofeo Mezzalama, the highest ski mountaineering race in Europe, at more than 4,200 meters above sea...

The 'Unusual Occupations' series of theatrical short subjects was produced by Jerry Fairbanks Studios and released by Paramount Pictures from 1937...

A documentary about alpinism that takes place on Mount Kennedy. It was produced in 1965 by Hearst Metrotone News. It's part of the series, "Screen...

Shortened version of the film 'Snow flight' distributed by Warner Bros. The film was produced by Jerome Hill as 'a document of skiing according to...

In 1910, Arrigo Frusta and the operator Giovanni B. Vitrotti took the camera up to the 4000 meters high of the Mont Blanc chain to make three short...

Epic documentary about the German expeditions to Nanga Parbat up to 1937. After a first unsuccessful attempt in 1932 and the tragic second expedition...

Record of the 1938 German expedition to Nanga Parbat. In June 1938, the vanguard of the German expedition to the Himalayas, after many laborious...

In 1910, Arrigo Frusta and the operator Giovanni B. Vitrotti took the camera up to the 4000 meters high of the Mont Blanc chain to make three short...

A record of the second British Everest expedition showing the journey from Darjeeling to Tibet, activities of the Tibetans, and the climb itself. The...

Following in the footsteps of Captain John Noel and his immensely popular documentaries taken on the Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s...