Climbing History Movies

The documentary recounts the brief yet intense "beat" epic of a group of young climbers who, from 1973 to 1975, brought the restless and creative...

A 2016 film about the Cateissard, a mountain overlooking the Val di Susa near Turin, a laboratory of innovation and evolution in Italian climbing....

From John Muir in the 1860s to today's super-athletes, Vertical Frontier tells the rich and captivating saga of these free-spirited climbers whose...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jill Lawrence and Gill Price, members of the women's climbing club Pinnacle Club, made the first female ascents of...

The name Jean Gounand is legendary among the rock faces of the French and Italian Maritime Alps. Whether through a bold first ascent, an audacious...

Filmmaker Dom Bush explores his personal relationship with risk through the story of one of his climbing idols, Pete Whillance. A quiet pioneer of...

The film explores the journeys of several Catalan female climbers spanning five generations. From the pioneers who blazed trails in high-mountain...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith