Climbing on rock and ice

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

“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

The two brothers Martin and Florian Riegler from South Tyrol set off to conquer a 26 year-old techno route. They want to be the first to free climb the 12 pitches across the 300 m high, overhanging Villnösser Red Face. Difficulties of the 10th... more

In „Climbing Elements“, the Austrian exceptional climber Kilian Fischhuber meets probably his biggest challenges of his career. Vertical climbs in the South African Rocklands, on the cold and clean granite of the Zillertal, and in the endless... more

For Herbert Ranggetiner from the Pinzgau region, an extremely hard training and the support of family and friends are the necessary preconditions for climbing projects on the rock. In diverse climbing disciplines he counts among the best, but what... more

Ueli Steck is known as one of the best solo climbers in the world, always ready to take a well calculated risk. This film portrays the 34-year old Swiss on the quest of his personal limit, when he tries to push the limits of modern alpinism... more

Philadelphia, 8 A0, E6 – this is the evaluation by Albert Precht, after his technical first ascent together with Sigi Brachmayer in the year 1993. Since then, only very few roped parties dared to climb this intense, hardly to be belayed route on... more

Piotr „Mad“ Korczak is a legend among Polish climbers. He initiated the whole range of various techniques of „conquering“ the walls, and was the first to begin to consider climbing as a sport, what took him to participate in numerous contests and... more

This collage of powerful pictures shows Klaudia Buczek at her speed climbing training. Like a boxer she precisely studies the motion sequences so that she will be able to “run up” the wall in a breathtaking speed. more

David Lama is a representative of a new generation in the climbing sport. No project seems too hard, no destination too far away. With mountain air in his genes he already as a child set new benchmarks. First on the rock, then in the competitions... more

300 metre solo on a frozen water fall. There, a cramp in the hand can mean your death. Splitting ice, and the climber falls into the depth. Why does a man take such risks? Is he tired of living? What is driving him? The top ice climber Harry... more

An extraordinary romance: Polish alpinists Eliza Kubarska and David Kaszlikowski, take a lonely journey to the fjords of southern Greenland to reach the world's highest sea cliff. The vertical wall is reachable only by Kayak across an eerie,... more

For a decade, Chris Sharma has ruled the climbing world, establishing the most difficult first ascents in existence. Now Sharma has found the longest, hardest, most beautiful climb of his life. Training for months on end, braving hundred-foot... more

The Basque Iker Pou is one of the strongest and most perfect climbers of the world. Beside others, he has repeated Güllich’s „Action directe“ (9a), he has flashed routes up to the degree 8c, and, together with his brother Eneko, he has... more

This film follows a skilled team of four climbers (Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Ben Ditto, Sean Villanueva) and a Scottish reverend captain sailor (Bob Shepton) on a climbing-sailing expedition to the West Coast of Greenland. Despite the... more

Iker and Eneko Pou face one of the worldwide reference climbing routes, Pan Aroma. It is located in one of the most famous climbing sites in Europe, the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the dolomites. Alex Huber describes it thus: "Many people say it is... more

November 2008, the Swiss climber Nina Caprez travels with 9 French guys to explore a new climbing spot in Argentina: an Altiplano littered with boulders and crags nested at 4200 m of elevation under the Tuzgle volcano. The movie illustrates the... more

A trip to India can be an unsettling experience, even if the goal is climbing, but it is hard to miss the exuberant animation that prevails there. The amazing contrasts, scents, sounds and colors accompanied the Petzl team and local climbers in... more