On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Dráma podľa skutočného príbehu ľudí, ktorí po páde lietadle boli vystavení nepredstaviteľným skúškam, ak chceli prežiť... V piatok 13. októbra 1972 došlo v Andách k nehode lietadla, na palube ktorého sa nachádzali členovia amatérskeho rugbyového tímu, ich rodinní príslušníci a priatelia. Mnohí z nich zahynuli hneď pri nehode, viacerým sa však podarilo prežiť, ostali však uväznení vysoko v nehostinných horách. O niekoľko dní sa z rádia dozvedeli, že pátranie po nich bolo zrušené, nik totiž neveril, že by mohli ešte byť medzi živými...
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.
Kelly Jordan and Andy Melton are former AAF fliers operating a cargo service over the South American mountain ranges in order to get enough money to return to Texas and buy a commercial line.
Film je natoceny na motivy rovnomennej knihy Joe Simpsona. Rozprava skutocny pribeh dvoch britskych horolezcov Joe Simpsona a Simon Yatesa, ktori prezili v roku 1985 tragicku nehodu vysoko v peruanskych Andach. Pri zliezani zapadnej steny oboch spajalo jedine lano. Simpson sa vsak nestastne zranil a oboch dostal do zivot ohrozujucej situacie. Jedine, co mohol Yates pre oboch spravit, bolo prerezat lano, ktore ich spajalo. Simpson spadol do ladovej trhliny, odkial sa plazenim a v bolestiach bez akehokolvek jedla a vody po temer styroch dnoch dostal spat do zakladneho tabora. Dorazil iba hodinu pred Yatesovym odchodom spat do Britanie.
Donald is trying to collect a condor's egg when the condor returns. He hides inside an empty egg and regrets this when the large, warm mother returns. He regrets it even more when he "hatches" and mama encourages him to fly. And mama proves to be even more protective than Donald would like.
A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Picchu is a story that follows the journey of an Andean girl named Mayu and the unconditional support of her mother. The path will not be simple. Mayu will rely on her determination and her mother's teachings to overcome her fears and doubts to fulfill her destiny. Picchu reflects the reality of many children around the world.
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
Príbeh skupiny mladých mužov, členov uruguajského rugbyového tímu, ktorým sa podarilo prežiť 72 dní v nadmorskej výške takmer 4 000 metrov v srdci Ánd po tom, čo sa ich lietadlo na ceste do Čile 13. októbra 1972 zrútilo.
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
Bolivia's Climbing Cholitas - a group of indigenous women scaling the Andes Mountains, some of the highest peaks in the world. Shot in Bolivia for Vogue Latin America and Vogue Mexico's 20th anniversary cover story.
The communal justice system accuses Don Evaristo, 80 years old, of the murder of his granddaughter Yana-Wara, 13 years old. During the hearing, everyone learns the tragic story of this young girl.
Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.
History of the first ascent of Aconcagua by the south face in February 1954 by the French shock team led by René Ferlet and composed of Lucien Bérardini, Adrien Dagory, Edmond Denis, Pierre Lesueur, Robert Paragot and Guy Poulet. In seven days of combat, they extricate themselves from the mountain in a pitiful state; all except Robert Paragot will be victims of severe frostbite which earned them amputations, some important as for “Lulu” Bérardini who lost part of his left hand.
In 1972, a plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team disappeared into the Argentinean Andes. Now, 50 years after one of the greatest ordeals of survival in recorded human history, the full story is finally comprehensively told through the words of each of those who lived it.
Ski Peru is the story of two skiers’ dream of descending the untamed slopes of Huascaran, although maybe 'Ski Peru and die' would be a more appropriate title given the tragic climax to Peter Chrzanowski’s Peruvian odyssey. Filmed long before today’s adrenaline charged ski videos on heavy 16mm movie cameras there is no heavy rock soundtrack, no helicopters, no roboskiers mainlining powder at Mach 5.0. It is a slow moving film that explores man’s relationship with the mountain and what it is to ski into the unknown.
The documentary follows an expedition led by the adventurer and photographer Jorge Juan Anhalzer, in the heart of the Llanganati, in search of the enormous Inca treasure hidden in the Ecuadorian mountains.