Movies: Alpinism

  • 2012
    The Old Breed

    The Old Breed (2012)

    The Old Breed

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    “Getting to the top matters,” or so says veteran alpinist Mark Richey as he prepares to climb Saser Kangri II, at 7,518 meters the world’s second highest unclimbed mountain. In “The Old Breed”, co- director and climber Freddie Wilkinson takes the aud...

    The Old Breed
  • 2020
    A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground

    A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground (2020)

    A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground

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    An exploration into grief and its expression through the stories of individuals who have experienced loss or trauma due to climbing or alpinism. This artful compilation of interviews highlights how there is no singular or correct way to grieve....

    A Thousand Ways to Kiss the Ground
  • 2006
    Jean-Marc Boivin, Extremely Yours

    Jean-Marc Boivin, Extremely Yours (2006)

    Jean-Marc Boivin, Extremely Yours

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    Jean-Marc Boivin had chosen the natural elements as his playground. In his quest for extremes and discoveries. By turns mountaineer, skier, hang-glider, explorer, paraglider, sailor, speleologist or base-jumper, he loved constantly exploring “terra i...

    Jean-Marc Boivin, Extremely Yours
  • 1978
    Everest Unmasked

    Everest Unmasked (1978)

    Everest Unmasked

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    Record of the first ascent of Everest made without the use of oxygen equipment, made in May 1978 by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. Could it be done? Would their blood vessels burst? Would they suffer brain damage leading to madness? Nobody was s...

    Everest Unmasked
  • 1944
    First in Line

    First in Line (1944)

    First in Line

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    A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mou...

    First in Line
  • 1969
    Shakhaur 7116m, Face Nord

    Shakhaur 7116m, Face Nord (1969)

    Shakhaur 7116m, Face Nord

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    This film - without commentary and simply accompanied by local music - relates the 1969 ascent of the north face of Kohe Shakhawr, a Himalayan peak located on the border with Afghanistan, by mountaineers Benoît Mathieu, Jacques Soubis, René Thomas, J...

    Shakhaur 7116m, Face Nord
  • 1977
    Denali's Wife

    Denali's Wife (1977)

    Denali's Wife

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    The film of the first ascent of Mont Foraker (5,304 m) in the Denali chain in Alaska, by the southeast ridge of independence in 1976, which remains years after an unequaled sporting and human adventure. The 7 members of the expedition, Henri Agresti,...

    Denali's Wife
  • 2013
    Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell

    Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell (2013)

    Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell

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    Movie about David Lama climbing the Patagonian mountain Cerro Torre for the first time free, a mountain that has been dubbed the most difficult to climb in the world....

    Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell
  • 2020
    K2: The Impossible Descent

    K2: The Impossible Descent (2020)

    K2: The Impossible Descent

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    On July 22 2018, a Polish ski mountaineer clicked into his bindings at an altitude of 8,611m to make history. Follow Andrzej Bargiel’s expedition from Poland to Pakistan, as he descends K2 on skis....

    K2: The Impossible Descent
  • 2009
    Beyond the Summits

    Beyond the Summits (2009)

    Beyond the Summits

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    Catherine Destivelle is an ambassador for the French Alps and is well known in France and abroad. In Beyond the Summits, viewers will feel like they are climbing up the mountain with her. The film shows three classic Chamonix routes with three differ...

    Beyond the Summits
  • 2020
    Jòlha Ròc, following in the footsteps of the Ravier brothers

    Jòlha Ròc, following in the footsteps of the Ravier brothers (2020)

    Jòlha Ròc, following in the footsteps of the Ravier brothers

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    Bastien Lardat and Jordi Noguere, two rope brothers, invite us to pay tribute to the pioneers of modern Pyrenees, through a new kind of sporting journey. Pierre and Jean Ravier opened the way several decades ago, drawing on the Pyrenean reliefs one o...

    Jòlha Ròc, following in the footsteps of the Ravier brothers
  • 2012
    K2 - The Most Dangerous Mountain in the World

    K2 - The Most Dangerous Mountain in the World (2012)

    K2 - The Most Dangerous Mountain in the World

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    K2 - The Most Dangerous Mountain in the World
  • 2012
    Messner

    Messner (2012)

    Messner

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    Born in 1944 in South Tyrol, Reinhold Messner was introduced to climbing peaks by his father as a child. He has since climbed the fourteen mountains of the world culminating at more than 8,000 meters, and notably has to his credit the first ascent of...

    Messner
  • 2000
    When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema

    When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema (2000)

    When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema

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    Many mountaineers as part of their activity have used cameras and films to allow us to participate through images in their adventures and their emotions. Many of them have become true film professionals: Joseph Vallot, Lionel Terray, Marcel Ichac, Re...

    When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema
  • 1982
    Propast

    Propast (1982)

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    Propast
  • 1937
    Karakoram

    Karakoram (1937)

    Karakoram

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    Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for the trip to the end of the ascent. After a long approach walk through quasi-desert regions, then on a ...

    Karakoram
  • 1976
    The Summit

    The Summit (1976)

    The Summit

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    Georgian and foreign alpinists make an effort to ascend a high mountain. The weather is inclement making their effort extremely perilous. Every step on the snow-covered trail is precarious. Professionalism, firmness and compassion have far more value...

    The Summit
  • 1996
    Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes

    Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes (1996)

    Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes

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    The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took t...

    Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes
  • 1971
    Makalu 8481m - West Pillar

    Makalu 8481m - West Pillar (1971)

    Makalu 8481m - West Pillar

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    The French Alpine Club's film about the French expedition to conquer Makalu (8481m) via the west pillar in Nepal, which began on February 24, 1971. Composed of 11 mountaineers, Robert Paragot (expedition leader), Georges Payot, Lucien Berardini, Yann...

    Makalu 8481m - West Pillar
  • 1953
    Victory over Annapurna

    Victory over Annapurna (1953)

    Victory over Annapurna

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    In 1950, a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog went to central Nepal to conquer the highest peak (8,091 meters): Annapurna. The film is not only made of what we see, but even more of what we don't see. Its imperfections are the negative imprint o...

    Victory over Annapurna