Mountaineering Documentary Movies

A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

"She Climbs to Conquer" shot by W.J. Oliver, was a noteworthy film which gained well merited acclaim. Made in 1933 it pictured the climb of Georgia...

Released on July 30th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on August 28th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

"Accident dans les Alpes" is a documentary about alpinism. It was produced in 1908.

William J. Oliver filmed the ascent of Mount Tupper in the Glacier National Park by the famous Swiss mountain guide Edward Feuz accompanied by his...

Four men walk accross the upper part of the Mer de Glace Glacier. All they walk unroped and using ice axes as a cane. The shot belongs to a...

A film on mountain-climbing in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. Glenn Exum, Virginia Garner, and Paul Petzoldt demonstrate mountaineering techniques...

Released in 1901

At the heart of the eastern Alps, in the Niedere Tauern massif that rises in the Austrian state of Salzburg, soldiers undertake the tortuous ascent...

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

"A series of films taken during a difficult and dangerous ascent of the Jungfrau;, showing views of the climbers at an height of over 13,000 feet....

Tourists leaving the Bear Hotel, Kandersteg, to cross the Gemmi. Many ladies of the party are seen mounting the hardy ponies at the hotel front, and,...

This short film shows an alpine march of the young fascists of the federal command of Belluno to the Mario Vazzoler refuge. From there, a group of...

Colour tinted, this early film shows how tourists traveled around New Zealand in the early years of the twentieth century - by boat, horse, and trap,...

Following the successful ascent of Mont Blanc, the Warwick Trading Company expedition led by Frank Ormiston-Smith went on to film the ascent of the...

1897, directed by Georges Melies.