Mountaineering Documentary Movies

The ascent of the Wetterhorn by Frank Ormiston-Smith accompanied by the guide Christian Bergener, Rev. H. J. Heard, Mr. E Burchell-Rodway from the...

This short film shows an alpine march of the young fascists of the federal command of Belluno to the Mario Vazzoler refuge. From there, a group of...

A film by Richard 'Dick' Leonard produced by the American Alpine Club about mountaineering in Sierra Nevada (California). Richard Manning Leonard was...

Embark on the Kamak ship, bound for Greenland and its pristine cliffs, following our favorite Belgians: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas...

A group of tourists, including five women, cross the Mauvais Pas, a rocky passage equipped with a railing, next to the Mer de Glace Glacier. One of...

"Dispenser", the first Italian documentary entirely dedicated to bouldering, brings together some of the protagonists of the Italian scene, who have...

Colour tinted, this early film shows how tourists traveled around New Zealand in the early years of the twentieth century - by boat, horse, and trap,...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

Everest-obsessed since childhood, Robert “Rusty” Baillie fulfilled his dream of joining an Everest expedition in 1982. He was buried in...

...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...

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...

A "team of savages," as their boat captain Bob Shepton calls them, comprised of Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Olivier Favresse, Nicolas Favresse, and...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A group of mountaineers ascend the Grossvenediger in the Austrian Tyrol in winter. The group starts from the Krimmler waterfalls and the Warnsdorfer...

At the heart of the eastern Alps, in the Niedere Tauern massif that rises in the Austrian state of Salzburg, soldiers undertake the tortuous ascent...

Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls...

Taking footage from the film 'A la conquete des cimes', this instructional film distributed for the home market as a Pathe Baby film in two reels,...

"A series of films taken during a difficult and dangerous ascent of the Jungfrau;, showing views of the climbers at an height of over 13,000 feet....