1. Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes (Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes)
The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers feature this big guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair on the front page. From then on, he was nicknamed: "the beatnik of the peaks".
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. Tauwetter (Tauwetter)
When the snow melts and the hills of Appenzell are dotted with green and white, buckets of water slowly make their way up and down the slope. After a time, the gentle movement turns into violent swaying. Shots ring through the air, the buckets are punctured. Slowly the water begins to flow. This is the high point of a ritual that begins deep within the bowels of the mountain. Then trails of water spurt through the air to the thawing slopes and the water begins to gush, nearly causing the well in the valley to overflow.
3. L'Uomo Di Legno (L'Uomo Di Legno)
(L'Uomo Di Legno)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. Cows on the Roof (Anche stanotte le mucche danzeranno sul tetto)
Herdsman Fabiano will be a father soon. He owns fifty goats and eight cows and is trying his best to produce the alpine cheese that his hippie parents made a name for themselves with in the '70s, in an isolated valley of Ticino. But nothing is going the way it should. He's in debt, and feels guilty for a fatal accident which occurred the previous year, which haunts him. How can he and his girlfriend build a life together under such difficult circumstances?
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
5. Tom
Tom Ballard lives with his father James in a campsite in the Dolomites. Tom's mother, Alison Hargreaves died descending K2 when he was just 6 years old. Despite this, he never wanted to be anywhere other than in the mountains. His whole life is dedicated to climbing and his last goal is to solo the Six North Faces of the Alps in a single winter season. Nobody has achieved this before, and he wants to be the first. In a white van driven by James, Tom will travel through the Alps to make his dream come true.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
6. The Alps from Above: Symphony of Summits (Die Alpen - Unsere Berge von oben)
The most important mountain range in Europe is more than a holiday destination for sports and relaxation. The Alps are not just an unpredictable force of nature against which humans have to assert themselves again and again, or an area steeped in history, but also a landscape that enchants. The documentary takes a foray through the history and geography of the Alps.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
7. Lyon-Turin : Le Dernier Tunnel XXL (Lyon-Turin : Le Dernier Tunnel XXL)
(Lyon-Turin : Le Dernier Tunnel XXL)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. Faces Nord (Faces Nord)
March 12, 1987. The young French mountaineer Eric Escoffier prepares his equipment, very reduced in material and food. He leaves the next day and intends to chain three north faces in the Alps: Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses. The ascent of the first summit, the Eiger is slow, difficult and full of pitfalls. It takes 17 hours to reach it. Without recognizing the terrain -he prefers to improvise- the mountaineer continues through the Matterhorn. When night falls, anxiety is felt on Zermatt's side. Help is organized to pick him up. Despite his refusal to return, Escoffier is finally hoisted. Christophe Profit, a few hours earlier, managed the chain of three summits.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. Profession grimpeur, Eric Escoffier (Profession grimpeur, Eric Escoffier)
(Profession grimpeur, Eric Escoffier)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
10. Chamonix - Mont Blanc, Une histoire de conquêtes (Chamonix - Mont Blanc, Une histoire de conquêtes)
(Chamonix - Mont Blanc, Une histoire de conquêtes)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. Stelvio: Crossroads of Peace (Stelvio: crocevia della pace)
(Stelvio: crocevia della pace)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Equilibre (Equilibre)
In the middle of the French Alps, some adventurers balance themselves on slacklines high above the ground.
13. Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame (Agassizhorn: Berg der Schande)
In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain after himself, but who claimed he had discovered the Ice Age and went on to become one of the century's most virulent, most influential racists.
14. La Via Bonatti (La Via Bonatti)
(La Via Bonatti)
It has an average vote of 9.8 on TMDB.
15. Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia (Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia)
(Riccardo Cassin, 100 Anni - Un secolo di alpinismo passato alla storia)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
16. La vallée des loups (La vallée des loups)
(La vallée des loups)
It has an average vote of 6.933 on TMDB.
17. The Alps - Climb of Your Life
In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. 40 years later, his son John Harlin III, an expert mountaineer and the editor of the American Alpine Journal, returns to attempt the same climb.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
18. Refuges (Refuges)
(Refuges)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
19. Cervino - La Montagna Del Mondo (Cervino - La Montagna Del Mondo)
(Cervino - La Montagna Del Mondo)
It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.
20. La Cordée de Rêve (La Cordée de Rêve)
La Cordée de Rêve traces the great alpine journey made from August 2000 to February 2001 by Patrick Berhault. His great crossing of the Alps, here told to his daughter, will be done sometimes alone, sometimes surrounded by friends: Patrick Gabarrou, Patrick Edlinger, Ottavio Fassini, Gaël Bouquet des Chaux, Valérie Aumage, Philippe Magnin. During this alpine trip he will find his brother-in-arms Patrick Edlinger for the dolimitic part and will also see the genesis of the "Cordée Magique Berhault/Magnin". For 167 days, in sneakers in the fall, on touring skis in the winter, Patrick Berhault chained 2 to 3 stages of an average hiker daily, swallowing 1,500 to 2,000 meters of vertical drop and up to 45 kilometers per day. , and climbed 22 peaks. It's called that: "La Grande Cordée" but behind this title lies an exceptional human and sporting performance.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
