The Arctic is one of the most hostile regions on earth. Hidden in a deep ice cave, a female ice bear is waiting for the winter to end. She has given birth to her offspring: triplets! – which is quite rare. After having spent more than five months... more

The Traun is not just an ordinary river. The Traun forms the central axis of a multiple water system: thunderous englacial streams, waterfalls, seventy-six lakes, numerous sources of all kinds, cave waters, calm meadowlands, thousands of... more

The Norwegian André Bach is one of the pioneers of the international base jumping scene and started, like the most of them, as a reckless young man who had only one focus: B.A.S.E. jumping. In “Portrait of a Serial Jumper” Bach describes how his... more

We spent 40 days in west coastline of Greenland. Kayaking in the fjords, looking for slopes with our own eyes, reading the weather and ski. We have done our best with our own strength in a very natural environment. It was a simple structure... more

„First it wasn’t called ‘acro’, it was only called crazy stuff,“ says legendary pilot Richard Gallon about the rise of the paragliding aerobatics, one of the most edging mountain sports these days. The film shows the big battle between the new... more

The route “Zigeunerbaron Extrem“ at the gate to the cave “Zigeunerloch” near Gratkorn was climbed for the first time by the two Styrians Christoph Grill and Thomas Hrovat twenty years ago. This event was documented in the first independent film... more

Most of the inhabitants of the Swiss Bündner Alpine Valleyes live in modest and sparse conditions. In many villages, the economic upturn arrived only in the last decades. Only a few of these people have preserved their traditional way of life... more

The successful attempt of the two mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler in 1978 to climb Mount Everest without using oxygen bottles is the focus of the documentary by Leo Dickinson. This film also presents the – often tragic – history of... more

Dave McLeod, one of Britain’s best all round climbers, is in the training for the hardest route he has ever tried, high on the north face of Ben Nevis. To be able to climb it, he must climb at his physical limit yet to fall off the route means... more

Nowadays mountaineering is experiencing increasing specialisation and this makes Christoph Hainz probably one of the last all-rounders fulfilling his dream of real alpinism. Hainz is not only an extraordinary rock climber, he is also very... more

Why do so many people exercise or at least admire sports – especially extreme sports in nature? This film describes what drives the athletes and searches for the reasons why they have a guilty conscience if they don’t exercise if the weather is... more

The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces the... more