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Instructional film on the basic notions of rock climbing, structured in three parts: 1. The first rudiments of mountaineering: training to acquire strength and elasticity, the technique to tie yourself in a rope; 2. The technique of rock climbing and rappelling; 3. Rock climbing and abseiling on a short vertical wall. A film by Piero Lamperti produced in 1951 by Incom-Scuola.
The recreation of a mountain rescue on a vertical rock face in the Mont Blanc Massif. From the Couvercle Hutt, an accident is reported to the rescue service in Chamonix. Immediately a rescue team is organized. A Civil Protection helicopter sees the two climbers in difficulty and injured. After a night spent in the Couvercle shelter, rescuers, heavily loaded, go to the scene of the accident. They must climb to the top and then descend to the height of the climbers. A man rappels and returns the most seriously injured on his back. The descent is difficult. A cable car must be improvised to transport the injured man to the glacier.
In 1955 the Royal Air Force Mountaineering Association underwent an ambitious expedition to climb several unnamed peaks north of Manali in India. The expedition the the Lahoul region, led by Captain Tony Smyth was the first successful mountaineering expedition to this region. The team made several first ascents, among them, to the peaks Taragiri, Tambu, Shikar Beh and Ashagiri.
A boy and his uncle climb Ben Nevis. At the summit they see two climbers coming off the cliff face through the mist, one of whom describes to the boy safety precautions necessary when climbing. A colour silent film by John C. Elder, produced by Gaumont British Instructional as part of the series Junior Educational Adventures.
In the autumn of 2008, from the village of La Grave, Aymeric Clouet and Christophe Dumarest decide to follow the climb of eight North faces of the Massif des Ecrins on an imaginary route from north to south, which they call Le Méridien des Écrins. More than 12 days running along the steep ridges, the steep couloirs, and the vertiginous walls of this sumptuous massif lead them to the brink of exhaustion and allow us to discover their personalities, their vision of the mountain, their sensitivity, and to understand how an effective rope team often compared to the legendary Lachenal-Terray works.
On May 22, three members of the 2003 Everest Expedition, accompanied by three Sherpas, arrived at the summit of Everest in challenging wind conditions (60 to 80 km/h). The documentary series presents the different and complementary visions of three of this expedition members: Ang Norbu, sherpa and high mountain guide, Anselme Baud, guide and Christopher Thompson. An adventure in three episodes played by three characters who reveal their own vision and the background that led them to take up this challenge 50 years after the first conquest.
A black and white silent movie taken by Ben H Humble in 1946. It features John 'Jock' Nimlin, Harry Grant and David Easson climbing some of the peaks of The Cobbler. This film is in part an instructional account of the climbing techniques used. This film was awarded principal prize by Mr. Michael Powell in the 1948 Scottish Amateur Festival as depicted in the titles. The titles also advise the viewer that nothing in this film is faked!
The Italians Valerio Folco and Marco Spataro, two mountain guides from the Aosta region, have just left Italy, destination to Yosemite, where they plan to climb the route 'Tempest' on El Capitan. They will join forces with the Americans Tom McMillan and Bruce Bindner for this 20-pitch, 1200m aid route. Before starting the adventure, Valerio describes the route as follows: 'Tempest is a magical line on El Cap. It rises just to the right of Mescalito on the smoothest and most overhanging section of the wall. We don’t have any info about possible repeats and we haven’t even got a reliable drawing with the grades (A4+?) and gear needed...'
Fourth episode of the 'Tayny russkogo kino' series, about the story of the little-known circumstances of the shooting of several historical non-fiction Soviet films. This episode, dedicated to exploration, follows, among others, the filming of the 1928 Russian-German expedition to explore and map an area of the unexplored heart of the Pamirs. During the expedition, three German researchers (E. Allwein, E. Schneider and Karl Wien) made the ascent to the highest point of the Trans-Alai Range, which at that time had the name of the Kaufman Peak (today, Lenin Peak or Ibn Sina).
Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls that are sometimes rocky and sometimes snowy, they end up reaching the summit, which rises to 3412 meters high. One of the mountain guides in the film is Hermann Perren, who also participated in the another film by René Moreau: A la conquête des cimes (1927).
Taking footage from the film 'A la conquete des cimes', this instructional film distributed for the home market as a Pathe Baby film in two reels, makes a presentation of the mountaineering equipment and techniques. The film starts with a mountaineer wearing double socks and nailed boots; then he makes a demonstration of the rock climbing and rappeling technique. In the second reel two climbers show us the use of crampons and ice axe and the way to progress in the glacier.
A high adventure film about Tim Macartney-Snape's incredible expedition to climb Gasherbrum IV - a 8000 metre symmetrical pyramid mountain of rock and ice on the border of Pakistan and China in the Karakoram Range of the western Himalaya. Tim was the first in the team to reach the summit, and as he says 'the climb was harder than Everest'. This was Gasherbrum IV second complete ascent and first ascent of the northwest ridge. The mountain, first climbed in 1958 by Italians Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauro is one of the most difficult ones in the Himalayas and has registered only a handful of ascents.
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