Climbing Movies

The ascent of Mont Blanc in four Pathe Baby reels. The film is a short version of the 1907 'L'ascension du Mont Blanc'. It shows the ascent of Mont...

In September 1932, a party of climbers composed of Bruno Detassis, Gino Corrà and Nello Bianchini completed the first ascent of the Paganella...

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

The lycra was scary and sport climbing was being discovered in the U.S. Featuring Alan Watts, J.B. Tribout, Todd Skinner, Beth Wald and many others....

A party of six hires a mountain guide to take them over increasingly vertical terrain in this one-reel short subject. When one of the men on the...

Jon Barton of Vertebrate Publishing returns to Old Friends (E4 6a) at Stanage — a route with a deeply personal history after a previous...

Among the last unclimbed peaks on earth there stands a little-known mountain in a remote region of China. Follow a climbing expedition as they make...

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

Swiss documentary on the ascent of the Eiger by the Mitellegi ridge. After spending the night in the hut located 625 meters below the summit, two...

What does it mean to 'see'? Shapes and shadows? Lines and color? When his friend dies in an avalanche, artist, rock climber and new dad Jeremy...

Rotimi, an amateur climber and writer from London with deep family roots in Nigeria sets out to achieve the unthinkable: a first ascent of Zuma Rock,...

Hard Grit ascents in the Peak District, filmed and edited by Dan Honneyman.

Learn how to climb Great Gable in the Lake District, via the Arrowhead ridge climb.

The Pursuit film takes you into the mind of Aaron Mulkey and his pursuit of mother nature’s greatest watery treasures. Interviews with his...