Climber Movies

The legend says that the summit of Mont Blanc is covered in gold. This ancestral belief has obsessed Jacques Balmat, a mountain guide, from his...

Rock climbing on the "Cobbler". Awarded first prize by Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Film Festival

Die Eiger-Nordwand is a documentary about alpinism that takes place on the Eiger. It was directed by Max Herrmann in 1936. It features Fritz Steuri,...

"A 'Full-day exercise in the Bernina area' by mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. At two o'clock, 130 men broke up in...

An alpine ascent around the snow-covered area of Monte Cevedale by a large group of mountaineers equipped with crampons and ice axes. The group...

A mountaineering tour on the Franz Josef Glacier, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After leaving the Fox Glacier Hotel, two...

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...

"This picture shows a party of ten, tied together with a rope, with their spiked shoes biting into the treacherous icy path, mounting slowly upward...

Cimes is a drama about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by Jean Vernet in 1941 and produced by Films de Cavaignac. It...

A student, a railway worker and a peasant go on a trip to the Julian Alps and meet people on their way.

Richard Wellington leads Western State Collegers from Gunnison up to Gothic Mountain in the Elk Mountains, Colorado. The film is an episode of the...

"An early color film presented as 'Ascent to the Bernina Massif'. Two mountaineers break from the Forno hut and first climb the Punta Rasica and then...

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

Second part of the film 'River of ice', a mountaineering tour on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. After spending the night in the Deficance Hut,...

"A pioneering Norweigan climbing film. The filming was made in 1918 by film photographer Gunnar Nilsen Vik. The film begins with some pictures of Ola...

The climbers Jean Jacques and André Lambert, accompanied by the photographer Jean Lozeron, climb the great ridge of Salève, in...

Views of a party making the actual ascent of this famous mountain have a much greater interest than the usual scenic film. Commencing with the...

"A rock climbing traverse in the Gastlosen Massif. Arrival of the train to Saanenmöser, three men walk to reach the wall. Crossing the rock face...

A Gaumont Mirror newsreel showing a party of climbers setting out to climb the Great Gable. They appear drinking from a mountain stream and climbing...

Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls...