Movies: Alpinism

  • 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
  • 1979
    Ascent to Nanga Parbat

    Ascent to Nanga Parbat (1979)

    Ascent to Nanga Parbat

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    A film about the 1979 expedition to Nanga Parbat in Pakistan, led by Lyon native Jean-Pierre Frésafond. After a city tour, they set off by bus and then on foot with Sherpas to base camp. Having set out to attempt the Rupal Pillar, the expedition was ...

    Ascent to Nanga Parbat
  • 2017
    Safety Third

    Safety Third (2017)

    Safety Third

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    “There’s a fine line between being bold and being a dumbass. And I think Brad did some time on both sides of the line.” Such are the words filmmaker and climber Cedar Wright uses to describe the subject of his new film. Meet Brad Gobright, 27 years o...

    Safety Third
  • 1980
    K2 La Montagne Inachevée

    K2 La Montagne Inachevée (1980)

    K2 La Montagne Inachevée

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    K2 La Montagne Inachevée
  • 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
  • 2020
    Climbing Latok 1 From The North

    Climbing Latok 1 From The North (2020)

    Climbing Latok 1 From The North

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    On 9 August 2018, Slovenian climbers Luka Stražar and Aleš Česen, along with British climber Tom Livingstone, reached the summit of Latok I (7,145 m) in the Karakorum Mountains of Pakistan. They climbed three-quarters of the way up the coveted "impos...

    Climbing Latok 1 From The North
  • 1947
    À l'Assaut de la Tour Eiffel

    À l'Assaut de la Tour Eiffel (1947)

    À l'Assaut de la Tour Eiffel

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    Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the building. A police officer, overwhelmed by the events, does not succeed in arresting the intrepid who reach the summit with agility under the stunned ...

    À l'Assaut de la Tour Eiffel
  • 1961
    Entre Terre et Ciel

    Entre Terre et Ciel (1961)

    Entre Terre et Ciel

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    This is Gaston Rebuffat's fourth film, in which, with several close friends, he discovers the sublime landscapes of the Alps. “Mont-Blanc is beautiful. I climbed it several times depending on the time, the color of the sky and the shape of the cornic...

    Entre Terre et Ciel
  • 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
  • 2008
    Fly High

    Fly High (2008)

    Fly High

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    Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountain guides take an unprecedented risk in Patagonia. Trained by the great climbers Ralf Weber, Ueli Steck, Denis Burdet and David Fasel, the young people...

    Fly High
  • 2019
    The Pathan Project

    The Pathan Project (2019)

    The Pathan Project

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    The Pathan Project
  • 2015
    Kukuczka

    Kukuczka (2015)

    Kukuczka

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    Kukuczka
  • 1979
    Expédition Hoggar 79

    Expédition Hoggar 79 (1979)

    Expédition Hoggar 79

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    TSR documentary on the 1979 expedition to Algeria in the Atakor massif (Hoggar desert), organized by Geneva mountaineer Michel Vaucher and Jean-Blaise Fellay. The climbers make a dozen ascents including the famous summit of Adaouda (which means "fing...

    Expédition Hoggar 79
  • 2018
    One More Piton

    One More Piton (2018)

    One More Piton

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    Georges Livanos. A name that hardly evokes anything, or not much, even in the heart of Chamonix, the Mecca of mountaineering. And yet, the one nicknamed “the Greek” in the 1950s, because of his paternal ancestry, was undoubtedly one of the most impor...

    One More Piton
  • 1998
    Rock Queen

    Rock Queen (1998)

    Rock Queen

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    Catherine Destivelle has deservedly become the most famous female climber in the world. She rose to prominence with historic climbs, such as the free ascent of the Nameless Tower in Pakistan, and solo winter ascents of the classic north faces of the ...

    Rock Queen
  • 1969
    Hindou-Kouch 68

    Hindou-Kouch 68 (1969)

    Hindou-Kouch 68

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    Film about the first French expedition in 1968 in the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan. After a long and laborious approach by R4 car in the footsteps of Marco Polo, through Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, to the high valley of Wakhan, in the heart of th...

    Hindou-Kouch 68
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1969
    BORIS

    BORIS (1969)

    BORIS

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    Boris was a Ukrainian-Canadian mountaineer whose love for mountains was deeply spiritual. Now, his family must face their first expedition without him as they take his ashes to Patagonia – a place he considered Heaven on Earth. A contrast of laughter...

    BORIS
  • 2009
    The World of Gaston Rébuffat

    The World of Gaston Rébuffat (2009)

    The World of Gaston Rébuffat

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    The World of Gaston Rébuffat is a documentary on mountaineering which takes place at Gendarme Du Pic Du Roc and Grande Candelle. Directed by Gilles Chappaz in 2009 and produced by Seven Doc, we find Christophe Profit, Françoise Rébuffat, Thierry Rena...

    The World of Gaston Rébuffat