Alpine Documentation

Leo’s first ever film now remastered and re-edited – climbing the North Face of the Eiger in 1970! It was an act of unfathomable optimism – to climb the most notorious mountain on earth carrying two 16mm cine cameras and 5000ft of film into the... more

Two brothers. One mountain. Their destiny. The brothers Reinhold and Guenther Messner had a childhood dream of one day climbing the Nanga Parbat, the over 8,000 meter “naked mountain” in the Himalayas. In the year 1970, the time has come for the... more

The south face of the Dachstein counts to the most powerful free standing climbing walls in the eastern Alps. One hundred years ago, in September 1909, the brothers Franz and Georg Steiner had discovered a direct route across this breathtaking... more

Gaston Rébuffat is a legend of French mountaineering and he has earned his fame by many first ascents undertaken in the 1940ies and 50ies. Furthermore he has presented the climbing sport to a wide public with his thrilling books, capturing films... more

The Nanga Parbat (8125m), known also as Diamir (“King of the mountains”), is considered to be one of the most difficult and dangerous mountains in the world. Its dramatic history of ascent is inextricably connected with the names Hermann Buhl and... more

The film follows Leo Houlding's ambitious project to make a first free ascent on the North Tower of the incredible Mount Asgard on Baffin Island deep in the Arctic. Leo teams up with fellow big wall climbing god, Stanley Leary, the duo they hope... more

During the shooting in Engadin, the team of the German TV-series „Bergauf-Bergab“ were caught by an avalanche. Six months later, their shots have been used for the film documentation of this avalanche accident. For the film team this was also a... more

The „Rotwand/Roda di Vael“ in the Rosengarten Group of the Dolomites. Around 100 years ago, this face was deemed unscalable. Great names of Alpine history attempted it. With original footage from the 1960ies, with re-enacted scenes and complicated... more

Elite alpine climbers Jonny Copp and Micah Dash travel to a little-explored and treacherous mountain range in the Chinese province of Sichuan. They plan to make a first ascent of a face of Mt. Edgar (6400 m). When tragedy strikes, the dark and... more

Circa 200 years ago, the Sulden valley on the foot of the Ortler was almost unknown. In the newspaper “Innsbrucker Wochenblatt” of 1802, this area was described as “Siberia of Tyrol”, where “farmers and bears eat out of the same bowl.” With the... more

The 11.000 voluntary members of the Austrian Mountain Rescue Team enjoy a high reputation on an international level. The rescue team work according to the principle that everyone in danger has to be searched rescued and helped by doctors. Nobody... more

The longing for the mountains as a constant desire, and the endless space make him go up his way again, as every year. However, Konrad Henker is not a classical mountain hiker who loves to visit alpine huts. Whenever he goes into the world of... more

June 1970: in a unique achievement, four participants of a German expedition conquer the 8125 m high Nanga Parbat via a route, which up until then was considered as impossible – across the most powerful rock and ice wall in the world, the 4.500m... more

He is the most famous mountaineer in the world, has set many records, most of them are hardly believable. He was the first person to succeed in the ascent of all fourteen 8000m summits, the highest mountains on earth, and he was also the first... more

In April 1912, five young Brazilian men decide to climb Dedo de Deus (“Finger of God”), a mountain north of Rio de Janeiro. The pioneers barely knew what mountaineering means, but that does not stop them to carry the Brazilian flag to the top of... more

In the spring of 2009, Basque mountaineer Ms. Edurne Pasaban and a film team from Spanish television are heading towards Kangchenjunga, the third highest peak on earth. In Kangchen Base Camp Edurne meets Ms. Oh Eun-Sun from South Korea, who could... more