The Dark Glow of The Mountains

Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.

A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.

A group of alpinists make a perilous journey up a mountain.

A fallen stone broke the rope, the climber hanging on it fell into a crack, died of hypothermia, although he could have been found and saved. The climbers walking with him in the same bundle decided not to continue the search because of fatigue and the onset of darkness and returned to the camp. During the rescue work, the body was found. The commission concluded that the climber was alive after the fall and died not from his injuries, but from the cold some time later.

Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.

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

A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.

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

A group of mountaineers embark on high mountain climbing and photographing. In the evening, at the refuge, they also recount some of their most perilous climbing adventures.

Veteran Chamonix mountain guide Michel Servoz (Pierre Rousseau) and the young aspiring guide Patrick Falavier (Jeane-Pierre Marry) attempt to climb the west face of the Dru in the Mont-Blanc massif. When they are gone for five days, the captain of the gendarmerie Morteau (Jean Valmont) is worried, but he can not undertake research for a rescue without the permission of the family. Mary Servoz (Jeanne Allard) wants to respect the wish of her husband to keep the race secret. His daughter Catherine (Joëlle Fossier), engaged to Patrick, does not share this opinion. For her the waiting has been long enough. A journalist reveals that Michel tries to climb the west face of the Dru. After being rescued Michel recounts the circumstances in which Patrick was killed, struck by lightning. A month later, Michel resumes his activities as a guide. During his first expedition the client reveals his true identity: he is the brother of the deceased Patrick and he wants to know what realy happened high up in the mountain. Again the expedition goes wrong: Michel must sacrifice his life to save that of Philippe Falavier (Georges Claisse).

A dramatization of the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest expeditions.

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

This film shows serious moral problems in the society which become visible in an extreme situation, when happiness, trust, sense of life are so precious.

On May 10, 1996, mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer combine their expedition teams for a final ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. With little warning, a storm strikes the mountain and the climbers must now battle to survive.

Diotima meets Karl in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. When Karl's friend, Vigo, meets her, he mistakenly believes she is in love with him. Karl then believes that she is betraying him with his friend.

In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside world is a pilot and Hella over the morse-code-radio. As Hella climbs the mountain with her father, the father dies. Also Hannes gets endangered as his fingers freeze. But Hella gets help.

A troubled teenager joins a group of rock climbers and is quickly forced into a death-defying adventure.

Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.

In 1994, Mark Whetu summitted Mt Everest with Mike Reinberger. But after a freezing night, Whetu faced a harrowing choice: leave his friend or remain forever.

Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.

After a mountain climber's severe injuries and near-death accident, he's told he'll never climb again. His recovery left him to confront the question: why, after coming so close to death, did he feel compelled to continue climbing?

Legendary high-altitude climber Reinhold Messner pushes himself to the limit in achieving the first successful summit without the use of supplemental oxygen.

Feature documentary about mountaineering icon Reinhold Messner and how he became what he is. This film is as much about his personality as it is about his extraordinary exploits - the psycho-gram of a controversial mountaineer.

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.