Vertical (1966)

En 1985 dos amigos montañeros, Joe Simpson y Simon Yates, se encuentran escalando una montaña remota en los Andes -concretamente la cima del Siula Grande, un pico peruano de 21.000 pies de altura- cuando, cerca de la cumbre, uno de ellos se rompe una pierna. El otro intenta ayudarlo a bajar a un lugar seguro, pero las cosas no resultan tan fáciles.

Tom Ballard lives with his father James in a campsite in the Dolomites. Tom's mother, Alison Hargreaves died descending K2 when he was just 6 years old. Despite this, he never wanted to be anywhere other than in the mountains. His whole life is dedicated to climbing and his last goal is to solo the Six North Faces of the Alps in a single winter season. Nobody has achieved this before, and he wants to be the first. In a white van driven by James, Tom will travel through the Alps to make his dream come true.

“Getting to the top matters,” or so says veteran alpinist Mark Richey as he prepares to climb Saser Kangri II, at 7,518 meters the world’s second highest unclimbed mountain. In “The Old Breed”, co- director and climber Freddie Wilkinson takes the audience with him on a journey to the heart of one of the last unexplored patches of mountain wilderness: the war-inflicted eastern Karakoram range. As Richey and Steve Swenson, both in their 50s, push the limits of physical health and will power to be the first to claim this final summit, a gripping psychological thriller unfolds.

Dubbed ‘The Mountain God’, the Citadel is a stunning 3000m peak in one of the remaining untouched corners of the Great Alaskan Range: The Neacola Mountains. Due to their typically poor conditions and remote location are largely unexplored. Matt Helliker and Jon Bracey are one the UK's most formidable partnerships in alpine climbing with many world class ascents to their names from the UK to the Alps and the greater ranges. Their objective is to make the first ascent of the extraordinary 1200m long north-west ridge.

En la cara sur del Annapurna, a 7.400 metros, Iñaki Ochoa de Olza está muriendo. Su compañero de cuerda hace sonar la alarma. Y, desde el otro lado del mundo, el intento de rescate más grande en la historia del Himalaya se pone en marcha. Durante cuatro días, una docena de hombres, incluyendo algunos de los mejores alpinistas del mundo, procedentes de diez países, se dispuso a tratar de rescatar a su compañero herido. Incluso más allá de sus picos, Iñaki es un hombre excepcional. Tan excepcional como el intento de rescate en sí y los hombres que arriesgaron sus vidas para salvarlo. Excepcional, ya que su conducción es una regla de vida. Vivir en la única manera posible: con una intensidad pura y honestidad.

Directed by Gilles Chappaz.

Take a front seat ride and experience what it takes to make a first ascent on one of the world's biggest alpine faces in 2011. The film joins top British alpinists Jon Bracey and Matt Helliker as they honor their late friend Jules Cartwright by following his original vision of making a stunning and formidable new line on Mt Hunter's incredible north buttress; The Moonflower. Climbing the steepest and coldest section of the buttress; marvel at the dogged determination of the world class climbers as they approach exhaustion in an effort to complete the line before the increasingly freezing conditions irrevocably turn against them. The fruits of their efforts result in 'The Cartwright Connection' Ca 6000ft, Alaskan grade 6 (M6, AI6, 5.8, A2).

Travelogue about the 1909 expedition of Duke Luigi Amedeo of Italy to K2.

Este documental narra la apasionante historia de la cara norte del pico suizo Eiger, de 3.970 m de altura, a partir de los testimonios de reputados alpinistas como Chris Bonington, Ueli Steck, Stephen Venables y Andy Cave. Es la historia de una de las montañas del mundo más difíciles, el Eiger, y su infame cara norte. Les llevamos al corazón de uno de los picos más famosos de Europa, explorando su carácter y el impresionante impacto que causa en las personas que lo suben y de las que viven a su sombra.

A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French mountain climbers over the last several decades. In one re-enacted story, there is a wartime escape through the mountains, and in another, a daring rescue of a pair of climbers who had been missing. The actors themselves are adept at the sport of climbing, and they give the scenes an immediacy and real daring that brings the stories alive. A combination of their acrobatics and skill and the outstanding episodes in the history of French climbing creates a winning 78 minutes.

Película sobre David Lama escalando la montaña patagónica Cerro Torre por primera vez gratis, una montaña que ha sido llamada la más difícil de escalar en el mundo.

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the festivity, where she finds herself in a company of older hiker. However, all ends happily, as Minka and Miha, after many smaller adventures, meet at the top of Mount Triglav, where they sign the marriage contract, but also confirming their love for the mountains. In addition to its charming story, the movie features footage of picturesque Slovenian mountains.

En los sombríos campamentos del valle de Yosemite, los alpinistas crearon un estilo de vida contracultural de beatniks vagabundos y fiestas salvajes que chocaba con los valores conservadores del Servicio de Parques Nacionales. Y en las paredes, generación tras generación han superado los límites de la escalada, compitiendo entre sí por la supremacía en los acantilados de Yosemite. "Valley Uprising" es la historia fascinante e inolvidable de esta atrevida tradición de escalada en roca en el Parque Nacional de Yosemite: medio siglo de lucha contra las leyes de la gravedad y las leyes de la tierra.

Tres escaladores de élite luchan por encontrar su camino a través de la obsesión y la pérdida en su intento de escalar el Monte Meru, uno de los premios más codiciados en el juego de altas apuestas de las grandes paredes del Himalaya

"Más allá de las cimas" es un documental sobre la alpinista francesa Catherine Destivelle, en el que nos transmite su sentimiento por las montañas y su especial forma de vivirlas. A lo largo de los 75 minutos, Destivelle acompaña a algunas de las personas que más aprecia en escaladas en los Alpes franceses de especial belleza.

The film in a charming and original way compares the first ascent to the first free-climb ascent of the Face of Sphinx, located in the most prominent part of the North Face Triglav. The aesthetic and breathtaking footage present beautiful and powerful environment of the Slovenian national symbol, with the mystical Sphinx at the forefront and all four protagonists of the two crucial ascents, which are separated by a period of three decades. The central story tells us that the Sphinx does not want that the climbers to solve her riddle, taken from her famous question: 'Who walks in the morning on four, at moon on two and in the evening on three (legs)?'