Films, Documentaries and Video Clips
Progression
By Redazione Published: 14/01/2013
The future belongs to the young; never has this idea been as true as in this documentary.What did the great climbers of the 60s do, what did the great climbers and boulderers of the 70s,…
Sur le fil des 4000 - 82 four-thousanders in 82 days
By Redazione Published: 28/12/2012
Suspending your own disbelief in front of the television … true! That is what in English is called “the suspension of disbelief”, the attitude with which, even though we know that what we are watching…
The Fatal Game by Mark Whetu
By Redazione Published: 15/12/2012
It's 1994 (even before the great Into Thin Air tragedy): New Zealand guide Mark Whetu and his client Mike Rheinberger push on to the summit of Mount Everest, but realise too late that it has…
Big Stone, Linea Continua, Cold...
By Redazione Published: 10/10/2012
The sixth DVD in the box set contains 3 shorts that are completely different from one another, and they are: “Big Stone, Linea Continua and Cold.Of these three, clearly not all of them could be…
Everest Sea to Summit
By Redazione Published: 10/09/2012
The seventh volume of the "Il Grande Alpinismo" series, entitled "Everest Sea To Summit", has a rather enigmatic title. You read it and reread it a few times until you're driven to read the back…
Au-delà des Cimes - Catherine Destivelle
By Redazione Published: 05/09/2012
The docu-film on Destivelle... What can I say, perfect... it isn't even a docu-film, it is certainly not a film, it is a completely different way of presenting the mountains: it is simply a video…
K2, the last challenge by Franc Roddam
By Redazione Published: 03/09/2012
The usual ricocheting American blockbuster... On the back cover we find written: "Taylor is a young lawyer at odds with his working environment. Harold is a scientist oppressed by his intrusive wife. Both share a great…
Nanga Parbat - a film by Joseph Vilsmaier
By Redazione Published: 03/09/2012
The film "Nanga Parbat" throws you straight into a whirlwind of big themes. Within a few lines we find ourselves facing themes such as: prudence, risk, death, responsibility, faith.The introductory preamble would like to probe…
Himalaya, the childhood of a chief - Eric Valli
By Redazione Published: 24/08/2012
"In a remote village in the Dolpo, in the heart of the Himalaya, the story of the old chief Tinlé who, on learning of his son's death and suspecting the ambitious Karma of being to…