Mountain Terrain Movies

The film is presented as a climbing film from Tirol's mountain world based on an idea by Kurt Maix, and it's a touristical film of the series 'Bilder...

"She Climbs to Conquer" shot by W.J. Oliver, was a noteworthy film which gained well merited acclaim. Made in 1933 it pictured the climb of Georgia...

"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...

"In this film of the 'Vagabond Adventure Series', Tom Terris takes us to New Zealand in a kind of travelogue film. We accompany a client and a...

A mountain guide and a young woman make an ascent to Mount Sebastopol in New Zealand's Southern Alps. The couple leave from Mount Cook's Hermitage...

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...

The two guides Adrien and Félix Veillon with the customer Rotschild climb the Argentine ridge in the Swiss canton of Valais. The film was so...

A winter vintage ascent to Mount Ruapehu by a large group of mountaineers composed of about 11 men and women. Mount Ruapehu, 2797 meters high, is an...

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 group of men shows the 'before and after' physical effects of a journey upon the Mount Aspiring area. Mount Aspiring (9,960 ft.), known as the...

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on...

A rope of two mountaineers surveys the Argentière glacier making their way through crevasses and seracs. A film by René Moreau,...

A group of mountaineers ascend the Grossvenediger in the Austrian Tyrol in winter. The group starts from the Krimmler waterfalls and the Warnsdorfer...

Government travelogue depicting New Zealand's West land's scenery: Lake Manapouri, Fox Glacier Hotel, and Franz Josef Glacier. From the Fox Glacier...

"During the 1927, AGM Geddes on behalf of the Huts Committee, gave the report on the progress made on the completion of the Club's first hut, the Fay...

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced...

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands...

Ancient documentary that presents the ascent of Higher and Lower Cathedral Spires in Yosemite Valley by a party of three climbers from the Sierra...

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,...