mountaineering movies

Bret takes an inexperienced Rose rock climbing in the High Sierras, but then Bret falls and gets injured. With no way to retreat off the wall, the only way down is up and their fate is in Rose's hands. It's "climb or die".

(2012) Four of the biggest stories from the climbing world, told with humor, heart, and mind-bending action. La Dura Dura (The Hard Hard) The Shark's Fin Wide Boyz Honnold 3.0

A climber must rescue his sister on the peak of K2, the second highest mountain in the world .

A group of mountaineers in the Scottish Highlands discover a kidnapped girl and are pursued by her captors.

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.

83 year old Edie believes that it is never too late - packing an old camping bag, leaving her life behind and embarking on an adventure she never got to have - climbing the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland.

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

An Adivasi 13-year-old from Telangana becomes the youngest girl in history to climb Mount Everest.

An alpine story of family, determination and destiny.Toru grew up in the Tateyama mountain ranges: alpine country. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up he leaves his hometown, entering the working world as a stock trader and becoming another office worker. But when Toru receives word that his father has passed away, he returns to Tateyama once again and becomes conscious of a new calling. But does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father footsteps?

In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle.

A documentary that follows a team of veterans returning from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq as they set out to climb a towering Himalayan peak to overcome challenges and heal the mental and emotional ravages of war.

In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

Noch keinem Bergsteiger ist es gelungen, den Gipfel der majestätischen Guglia del Diavolo zu erklimmen - zu steil ist die letzte Wand, die zum Gipfel führt. Selbst der größte Kletterer Tirols versucht immer wieder vergeblich sein Glück und riskiert dabei jedes Mal sein Leben. Da seine alte Mutter es nicht erträgt, so oft um das Leben ihres Sohnes bangen zu müssen, gibt er ihr eines Tages das Versprechen, nie wieder einen Versuch zu unternehmen. Doch es gibt noch einen anderen Menschen, dem die Guglia del Diavolo keine Ruhe lässt: Hella, die Jugendfreundin und Schülerin des Bergsteigers. Zahllose Stunden hat sie schon damit verbracht, den gewaltigen Berg anzustarren, als würde sie dadurch eine Antwort bekommen auf die Frage, wie sie ihn bezwingen kann. Als Hella glaubt, einen sicheren Weg zum Gipfel gefunden zu haben, versucht sie, ihren Lehrmeister zu einer gemeinsamen Besteigung zu überreden. Der jedoch hält an dem Versprechen fest, das er seiner Mutter gab. Enttäuscht beschließt Hella, sich alleine auf den Weg zu machen. Als ein Unwetter aufzieht, eilt Hellas Vater in Todesangst um seine Tochter zu dem Bergsteiger und berichtet ihm, das seine Tochter sich auf den Weg gemacht hat, den Berg im Alleingang zu bezwingen. Nun hat dieser keine Wahl mehr: Er muss sein Versprechen brechen und Hellas Leben retten .

In 2014, director Jennifer Peedom was working on a documentary about the Sherpas of Mount Everest when the largest avalanche in recent history occurred on the mountain, killing 16 Sherpas.

The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

A man stranded in the Arctic after a plane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown.

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 - an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.

A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself.

A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.

In 1999, best friends Alex Lowe and Conrad Anker were overcome by an avalanche while climbing in the Tibetan Himalaya, only Conrad survived. Conrad suffered terribly from Survivor's Guilt and in comforting one another, he and Alex's widow, Jennifer, unexpectedly found love. Now Conrad and Jennifer try to find meaning beyond tragedy with a mountaineering safety school for Sherpas.

An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival...."

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.