Mountain Setting Movies

The ascent of the Matterhorn by the Hornli Ridge, filmed in July 1913 by Frederick Burlingham. The team, composed of Burlingham and four mountain...

Internationale Bergrettungstagung in Tirol 1948 is a documentary about mountain rescue that takes place in the Ötztal Alps. It was produced in...

Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for...

Percy Wyn-Harris' filmic record of the 1933 expedition, led by Hugh Ruttledge. It features comprehensive footage of the 1933 Mount Everest...

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

A winter ascent of Piz Bernina by Swiss mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. The film also shows images of avalanche research,...

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on...

The climbing of the Fiamma, the famous rock needle in the Bergell, with minimal equipment and technique. A must for lovers of mountain sports. A...

Filmed in the Colorado Rockies, this film portrays the dangerous sport of mountain climbing and shows special equipment needed, together with its...

The Devil's Throne is an inaccessible summit that has never been successfully climbed. A team of local climbers, consisting of two men and a woman...

In 1492, Captain Antoine de Ville reached the summit of Mont Aiguille. At the time, there were no climbing shoes, no harnesses, no quickdraws!...

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the...

"Flammes de Pierre" is the first documentary made by Gaston Rébuffat himself in 1947. It depicts Rébuffat in full ascent of the Flammes...

Klettern im Fels is an instructional documentary about rock climbing produced in 1945 by filmaker and producer Theo von Hörmann, producer of the...

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...

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...

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

An old film about the mountains of I Denti della Vecchia, a mountain group in the Lugano Pre-Alps, between Switzerland (Val Colla) and Italy...

Stephan, the son of an old-school mountain guide, is seduced by a city beauty. He leaves his mother, siblings, and girlfriend and travels to Zurich....