Climbing Movies

Short experimental film by British artist Lucy Gunning, featuring the artist herself climbing on and around her studio walls.

At 18,000 feet above sea level and over the course of 40 days last Spring, documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan immersed herself in the challenging...

"Demonstration of rock climbing in the Dolomites. Four climbers scramble unroped up a gully on limestone rock. They rope up for a steep chimney,...

Every year, over a thousand climbers try to reach the summit of Mount Everest, with the annual record for successful attempts currently standing at...

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

Hard Grit ascents in the Peak District, filmed and edited by Dan Honneyman.

"A mountaineering expedition in search of the victims of an Alpine tragedy, in which two well known climbers lost their lives. A beautifully pathetic...

The lycra was scary and sport climbing was being discovered in the U.S. Featuring Alan Watts, J.B. Tribout, Todd Skinner, Beth Wald and many others....

Two young cameramen are asked to film a Mount Everest expedition by German mountaineer Thomas Weber; a man wishing to climb Everest, in spite of his...