Peter Garrett on nuori vuori-kiipeilijä, jonka täytyy valloittaa maailman toiseksi korkein vuori, pelätty K2, pelastaakseen ihmishenkiä. Peter koettelee omien kykyjensä rajoja ja kamppailee uskomattomia luonnonvoimia vastaan pelastaakseen siskonsa Annien ja tämän retkikunnan. Annien ryhmä on ansassa jäisessä haudassa kahdeksan kilometrin korkeudessa - kuolemanvyöhykkeellä, joka murtaa ihmisen ruumiin ja mielen voimat nopeasti. Kilpajuoksussa kuolemaa vastaan jokainen sekunti on tärkeä.
Tositapahtumiin perustuva tarina kertoo Eiger-vuoren pohjoisrinteen valloitusyrityksestä kesällä 1936. Natsi-Saksan propagandakoneisto valmistautuu esittelemään maailmalle Berliinin Olympialaisia ja kansallissosialistisen Saksan ja sen Führerin ylivoimaisuutta. Ponnistukset kukistaa muut maat ei kuitenkaan jää vain yleisurheiluun. Saksa lupaa olympiamitalit niille, jotka huipulle pääsevät. Yritys on vähintäänkin uhkarohkea. Reitti kulkee vuoren pahamaiseista pohjoisrinnettä pitkin, eikä kukaan ole onnistunut sen valloituksessa aikaisemmin. Saksalaiset Toni Kurz ja Andreas Hinterstoisser ovat harrastaneet vuorikiipeilyä jo pienestä pitäen. He pyöräilevät 700 kilometrin matkan Sveitsiin, jossa Eigerin komea, yli 3 970 metrin korkeuteen yltävä vuori sijaitsee. Heidän tehtävänsä ei tule olemaan helppo, sillä helvetillinen kylmyys, ankara kiipeämisurakka ja korkeus saattavat pahimmassa tapauksessa viedä miehiltä hengen.
Rohkea mutta syrjäänvetäytyvä soolovuorikiipeilijä Marc-André Leclerc kruunataan sankariksi tahtomattaan, kun hän kiipeää maailman pelottavimmille jäisille huipuille.
Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
Based on true events, renowned mountaineer Um Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.
The Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the 2008 K2 disaster. On the way to and from the summit, eleven climbers died during a short time span creating one of the worst catastophes in climbing history. Much of the documentary footage was captured by Swedish mountaineer Fredrik Sträng. Sträng was planning to do a Documentary which was aborted due to the fact that he did not reach the summit. The footage was still valuable to help solving what really did happen since all the climbers had different stories about what happened.
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Yosemiten kansallispuiston keskellä sijaitsevan laakson jylhillä seinämillä on kiipeilty jo sukupolvien ajan painovoimaa uhmaten. Palkitussa dokumentissa tutustutaan laakson pohjalla leirielämää viettävien kiipeilijöiden omaan vastakulttuuriin, jossa bileet ovat villejä ja aterioita haalitaan roskiksesta.
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
Donald, Mickey, and Pluto climb the Alps. While up top, Donald has a run-in with a mountain goat over some edelweiss, Mickey has a row with an eagle over its eggs; one of them hatches, and gives Pluto some trouble (as does the grog a Saint Bernard gives him when he falls into a snowbank).
Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959. It is adapted from a novel by James Ramsey Ullman, entitled "Banner In The Sky". In the middle of the 19th century in Switzerland, a famous British mountaineer, Captain John Winter, wanted to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the village, Rudi Matt, whose father died fifteen years earlier during an attempt to climb the Citadel, is determined to accompany him, with the help of his uncle. Winter also manages to hire a guide from a neighboring village and competitor, Emil Saxo. The roped party of four men then begins the ascent of the still untouched summit.
In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the world’s fourteen highest summits in less than seven months. (The previous record was eight years). He called the effort “Project Possible 14/7” and saw it as a way to inspire others to strive for greater heights in any pursuit. The film follows his team as they seek to defy naysayers and push the limits of human endurance.
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
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 sure. Messner: 'I would never come here for trying Everest with oxygen. That is not a challenge for me.' A fascinating piece of history, well filmed by Leo Dickinson and Eric Jones (above the South Col Messner used a cine camera to continue the filming), featuring Messner and Habeler's thoughts. The film follows the usual sequence from Namche to Base Camp, through the Icefall, to Camps I, II and III. It also shows historical footage of the pioneering Mallory and Shipton expeditions.
A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.
Tanssija Diotima tapaa hiihtäjä Karlin tämän vuoristomökissä, jossa he aloittavat suhteen. Kun Diotima tapaa Karlin ystävän Vigon, kehkeytyy mustasukkaisuusdraama viettelevine seurauksineen. Alppien salaisuus on yksi kuuluisimmista elokuvista Arnold Fanckin uraauurtavasta vuoristomaisemiin sijoittuvasta ainutlaatuisesta elokuvasarjasta.
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
When world renowned climber Alex Lowe was tragically lost in a deadly avalanche, his best friend and climbing partner went on to marry his widow and help raise his three sons. This profoundly intimate film from eldest son Max, captures the family's intense personal journey toward understanding as they finally lay him to rest.