Mountaineering Documentary Movies

1900
Chamonix: the Mer de Glace. Descent.
Chamonix: the Mer de Glace. Descent.
31900HD
Four roped men descend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace. One of them falls and has to be hoisted. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes...
2010
Darwin, La Cordillière Secrète
Darwin, La Cordillière Secrète
102010HD
2009
Iceland – An Island of Fire and Ice
Iceland – An Island of Fire and Ice
102009HD
Albert Leichtfried is not only an experienced extreme climber but also the head of training for the Austrian Mountain Guides Association. Together...
1904
Difficult Ascent of a Rock Peak
Difficult Ascent of a Rock Peak
01904HD
1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
2019
The Pathan Project
The Pathan Project
02019HD
An unhoped-for mountain in a remote valley of Pakistan, a mountain that climbs and a solid team of Belgian, French and Argentinian mountaineers who...
1942
Piccoli Alpini
Piccoli Alpini
01942HD
The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...
1903
Cervino 1901
Cervino 1901
101903HD
On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....
2011
Vertical Sailing Greenland
Vertical Sailing Greenland
82011HD
A "team of savages," as their boat captain Bob Shepton calls them, comprised of Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Olivier Favresse, Nicolas Favresse, and...
1914
Adventures on the Roof of the World
Adventures on the Roof of the World
01914HD
The film collects material from different mountain adventures in the Alps filmed by Frederick Burlingham. From alpine climbing on the slopes of the...
1933
Happy Altitudes in New Zealand's Southern Alps
Happy Altitudes in New Zealand's Southern Alps
01933HD
Along New Zealand’s South Islands runs the mighty chain of the Southern Alps, where large and beautiful glaciers and Ice-falls abound among the...
1918
Scrambles in the High Alps
Scrambles in the High Alps
01918HD
Documentary on mountain climbing in the Swiss and Italian Alps.
1905
Surmounting the Summit of Finsteraarjoch
Surmounting the Summit of Finsteraarjoch
01905HD
1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
1917
The Snows of Many Years
The Snows of Many Years
21917HD
Known also as 'The Crystal Ascension', the film chronicles an exploration of Mount Hood and its glaciers by a mountain-climbing party who explore the...
1947
Jean des Bossons
Jean des Bossons
101947HD
Jean des Bossons is a documentary-fiction which recounts the activities of a high mountain guide in 1947. Around Chamonix Mont-Blanc, the guide Jean...
1942
Ski Mountaineering
Ski Mountaineering
01942HD
An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...
1902
Some Difficulties in Alpine Climbing
Some Difficulties in Alpine Climbing
01902HD
1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
1902
Ascent and Descent of the Aiguilles
Ascent and Descent of the Aiguilles
01902HD
1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
1904
Switzerland Series
Switzerland Series
01904HD
Distributed under the title of ‘Switzerland’ or ‘Playground of Europe’, the film consists of a collection of scenes filmed in...
1932
An Ascent of the Cevedale Massif
An Ascent of the Cevedale Massif
01932HD
An alpine ascent around the snow-covered area of Monte Cevedale by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group...
1970
Ascent of the Matterhorn
Ascent of the Matterhorn
01970HD
Released in 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.