Heinrich Harrer fue un famoso alpinista austríaco que intentó la ascensión al Nanga Parbat; desgraciadamente, su aventura se vio bruscamente interrumpida por el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Tanto él como su compañero, Peter Ausehnaiter, fueron recluidos en un campo de concentración, del que lograron escapar a través de las montañas.
Un exmontañista organiza una misión con el fin de rescatar a su hermana y a sus acompañantes atrapados en una cueva de hielo.
Desde el primer momento la joven Alice (Heather Graham) pone sus ojos en Adam (Joseph Fiennes), un misterioso y atractivo extraño, y ambos se embarcan en una apasionada relación, llena de riesgo y erotismo. Pero cuando los secretos del pasado de Adam empiezan a aflorar, Alice se encontrará en una situación de la que no sabe si podrá escapar.
Un grupo de cinco alpinistas se encuentra escalando las montañas de Escocia cuando, accidentalmente, dan con una niña que ha sido enterrada viva. Tras rescatarla, se dirigen al pueblo más cercano en busca de ayuda, pero los captores de la chica los están vigilando de cerca.
Un agente del FBI (Sidney Poitier) y un experto guía de caminos (Tom Berenger) se unen para seguirle la pista a un asesino que se esconde en el Pacífico del Noroeste. Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Richard Masur, Andrew Robinson, Kevin Scannell, Frederick Coffin.
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.
Shivaay , a fearless Himalayan mountaineer covered in Lord Shiva tattoos, heads to Bulgaria to fulfill his nine-year-old daughter Gaura’s wish of seeing her mother Olga, who abandoned them years ago. But their plan goes for a toss when the little girl gets kidnapped in the foreign land. Rescuing her from the masked child-traffickers becomes his only reason for survival.
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
El intrépido escalador nepalí Nimsdai Purja emprende una misión aparentemente imposible: coronar los 14 picos del mundo que superan los 8000 metros en solo siete meses.
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain.
In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning "Touching the Void", travels to the treacherous North Face of the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies. As a child, it was this story and that of one of the climbers in particular, that first captured Simpson's imagination and inspired him to take up mountaineering.
A 3D feature film about Sir Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 - an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
Los grandes éxitos y reveses en la vida del renombrado alpinista Hans Kammerlander.
Documentary about the famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner.
King Lines follows Chris Sharma on his search for the planet's greatest climbs. From South American fantasy boulders to the sweeping limestone walls of Europe, Sharma finds and climbs the hardest, most spectacular routes. Off the coast of Mallorca he discovers his most outrageous project yet, a 70 foot arch rising from the Mediterranean Sea...
A breathtaking journey over the spectacular snow-covered peaks of the Alps as we join a small group of extraordinary mountain athletes in their pursuit of happiness and fulfillment.
This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest in 1953.