Wednesday, 09. Nov. 2011

1,3 million gnus, 400,000 Thomson gazelles, 200,000 zebras, this is the biggest gathering of ungulates worldwide. In close vicinity, there are always the cats of prey, but the lions and the cheetahs cannot be any danger for the masses of hunted... more

Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain herdsmen in Europe. In summer and in winter, he drives his sheep herds across the far and wide landscape of the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, like his ancestors did for centuries, very close to the... more

Together with a group of bold adventurers, the luminary Olaf Obsommer and Thilo Schmitt undertake a kayak expedition to the Altai mountains. This proves to be an extraordinary challenge for the humans and for the material. They want to fulfil... more

The Swiss national park in the canton Grisons is one of the largest wilderness areas in Switzerland, and with its foundation in the year 1914, it is the oldest national park in the Alps and in Central Europe. The founders had the intention to... more

Despite being less than 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles, California, Iron Mountain is one of Southern California's most remote summits. A 2008 photograph began our obsession with skiing Iron's almost-perfectly inaccessible north face, sending... more

“In The Shadow of the Mountain” is a documentary that charts one climber’s exploration of the motivations of climbers; why they take the risks they do in the pursuit of their sport. Hugh Barnard is a mountain guide and filmmaker from Wanaka, New... more

In the year 1809, the young Bavarian Katharina, daughter of a doctor, has to flee together with her husband Franz from his homeland Tyrol. Franz gets infected by the hype surrounding Andreas Hofer, a captain of the Tyrolean Schützen-company and a... more

On May 29, 1953, the New-Zealander Edmund Hillary was the first man to stand on top of the Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. Later, some doubts were voiced. Was Hillary truly the first? In 1999, the German geologist Jochen Hemmleb made... more

An international team of scientists is on a mission to unlock the hidden secrets of Mt. Nyiragongo, an active volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They want to collect a fresh sample from the deadly yet mesmerizing lava lake at the... more

Deeply incised river valleys and desert-like rock plateaus, - Germany’s “Grand Canyon” is located in the „Saxon Switzerland“. Wind and water, heat and frost have created the unique landscape of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains throughout millions of... more

This is the story of an almost 6000m high pass on the border between Tibet and Nepal, which has been the gate to freedom for thousands of Tibetan refugees, however, which also sometimes meant death. The report of a mountaineer, ten years ago, led... more

The film team accompanies a group of German climbers on an exploration journey to the “enchanted mountains”, as the locals call the north-Albanian part of the Dinarides. The hiking tours in the national parks of Thethi and Valbona, which - with... more

Never before, has this mountain revealed itself as being so brutal. Never before, had nature demonstrated its superiority so obviously. When the filmmakers Anne and Erik Lapied decided to document the life of the wild animals in the national park... more

The farm of the Gufler family is located like an eagle’s nest, at an altitude of approximately 1700 metre, on a very steep slope at the end of the Passeier Valley in South Tyrol. Seven persons of three generations live there. Their farm can only... more

The third biggest island on earth gives home to some particularly fascinating animals. However, the situation for the Borneo orang-utans, the Borneo pygmy elephants, proboscis monkeys and the hornbills is serious. On Borneo, huge surfaces of rain... more

Ueli Steck may be the greatest speed alpinist the world has ever seen. In this film he tells the stories of his record-breaking ascents in the Alps, accompanied by stunning aerial footage of him racing up 8,000 foot alpine faces. Ueli joins Alex... more

Top rock athletes Dave MacLeod and Tim Emmett attempt to climb five new extreme routes on five Hebridean islands in five consecutive days. Tides, weather, fatigue and the sheer extremity of the climbs were all against them. Success was held in the... more

With Jon, reindeer herder above the Arctic Circle, it's a particular nomadism we discover: traditional and modern life come together in search of a balance. In the lush mountains of Sarek Scandinavians, with the rhythm of migration, we share the... more

The Tasman Sea is one of the world’s deadliest and most treacherous oceans, spanning 2200 km between Australia and New Zealand. No one had ever successfully navigated the Tasman by kayak although many had tried - one with a tragic outcome. This is... more

Germany’s only Alpine national park hosts extreme living spaces, such as the karst landscapes of the so-called Steinernen Meer, the Watzmann mountain with the highest rock face of the Eastern Alps, the Eastern Alps, the Wimbachgries with its... more

With extensive expeditions, biologists are exploring the fauna of the Amazon rain forests and fight for their future. Rangers patrol the forest in their helicopters in order to detect illegal timber cuttings. The Amazon Area is endangered as it... more