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- On May 10, 1996, mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer combine their expedition teams for a final ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. With little warning, a storm strikes the mountain and the climbers must now battle to survive.
- A boy and his beloved imaginary friend are able to stay together at an orphanage of sorts for imaginary friends that children have outgrown to be adopted by new children.
- A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
- A young man from the suburbs with no mountaineering experience decides to climb Mt Everest to show a woman he'd do anything for her.
- Survivors' firsthand accounts and actual footage fuel this emotional docuseries about the deadly 2015 earthquake that shook Nepal.
- Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
- A man who is overly focused on long-term career goals is exposed to the opposite attitude in a friend who believes in living life to the fullest rather than sacrificing present joy for future success.
- An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.
- The dramatic self-documented story of 20 elite Nepali climbers who venture into the "Death Zone" of Mount Everest to restore their sacred mountain and the contaminated water source of 1.3 billion people.
- In 2014, director Jennifer Peedom was working on a documentary about the Sherpas of Mount Everest when the largest avalanche in recent history occurred on the mountain, killing 16 Sherpas.
- A single mother working as a dishwasher who has another life as record-breaking mountain climber.
- Angnima Sherpa, the original "Icefall Doctor", has held the most dangerous job on earth, on the slopes of Mt. Everest, for 30+ years. A kaleidoscopic and meditative view on his last season as leader of the Icefall Doctors before his death.
- May 25, 1996 - Bruce Herrod, a South African mountaineer reached the summit of Everest at 5 p.m. On the radio, we urge him to come down as soon as possible because the descent is dangerous in the middle of the night. A few hours later, no news from him. From this South African expedition which turned into a fiasco and another expedition carried out in parallel, the testimonies of the members of these expeditions show to what extent the thirst for climbing to the top of certain mountaineers, combined with the lack of oxygen , can alter the lucidity of climbers to the point of changing their relationship to death and thus lead them to neglect other expedition members in order to ensure their victory or save their own life.
- This critically acclaimed six-part mini-series... Shot between March and June 2004, Ultimate Survival: Everest chronicles the Everest efforts of Team Discovery, which included two Canadian climbers - producer and experienced adventure guide Ben Webster, and his girlfriend, rookie climber and PhD candidate in Sports Psychology, Shauna Burke - plus Australian Andrew Lock and Hector Ponce De Leon from Mexico, both veterans of Everest and the world's most intimidating peaks. The series also follows the treks of Annabelle Bond, a London socialite; and diabetic American climber Will Cross. The expedition's members, including the team's Nepalese Sherpa guides, were trained to act as the production team, filming the extreme physical demands, physiological changes and emotional hazards. Soaring 8,848 meters above sea level - equal to the height of 16 CN Towers placed end to end - Everest's summit is the ultimate challenge for climbers around the world.
- This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.
- Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
- Erik is totally blind and is solo kayaking the length of the Grand Canyon. In Lava Falls, a large dangerous rapid, he discovers that despite what people might say, barriers can be real and they hurt .. a lot.
- The story of iconic Welsh rock musician Mike Peters (of The Alarm), his rise to fame, battle with cancer, and inspiring climb back as he enlists some of the world's top musicians to help save the lives of cancer patients around the globe. Ultimately though, the life he saves may be his own. Man in the Camo Jacket is a feature-length documentary film, currently in post-production and slated for a 2016 release. The film will hit the road with an accompanying bone marrow drive at each screening, leading to thousands of new donors and the potential for thousands of lives saved. Filmed over the course of eight years, the film documents Mike's journeys to the summits of the world's tallest mountains and to the depths of his regular chemotherapy treatments and features one of a kind performances from legendary rock musicians.
- The Tseng family is one of the most noble and respected clans in a small village in Tibet. The patriarch of the Tseng family wants to marry off his daughter Ching Lan into the Kao clan. However, the cunning and deceitful eldest brother Kao Chu only wants his younger sibling Kao I-Fan to marry Lan so he can gain access to the Tseng family's considerable wealth and power.
- Ben and Victoria are tested to their physical and mental limits as they attempt to scale the world's highest mountain.
- Accidental Climber tells the story of Jim Geiger, a retired forest-worker, and amateur mountaineer from Sacramento, CA who at 68 years old, attempts to become the oldest American and first great grandfather to summit Mt. Everest. The film follows Jim as he embarks on a journey to transform from a weekend hiker to attempting one of the most extreme and physically demanding feats known to man. Driven by a desire to prove that age is just a number, Jim pushes his body to the limits, in a record-breaking quest to summit the world's tallest mountain. What ensued, however, was the worst disaster in mountaineering history, leaving sixteen climbers dead in a tragic avalanche and forever changing Jim's life.
- "The Story" stars Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn, Bobby Brown, Willie Bogner, Chris Davenport, Kristi Leskinen, Chris Benchetler, Reggie and Zack Crist, Mike Douglas and numerous other stars of skiing, snowboarding, speed flying, paragliding, river surfing and kite skiing. The film takes viewers into deep character dives with the most famous skiers to the most obscure ski bums as well as to the top of Mount Everest, never before skied steeps in Alaska and various gut-wrenching variations on human flight.
- Glimpse into the brain's vast potential for memorization through the eyes of four competitive memory athletes as they share techniques and insights.
- Film follows blind climber Erik Weihenmayer's successful climb of Mount Everest.
- The Mountain portraits the adventure of the first Dominican expedition to reach the top of Mount Everest in Nepal. With beautiful images, powerful music, and inspiring achievements, The Mountain presents the contrast of the highest mount in the world and the low lands of the Caribbean, as the three climbers surpass the difficult track to the top. At the same time, three Dominican children, son of fishermen, start their own challenge in climbing the highest mountain in the island. Two parallel stories that remind us that from the sea to the sky, everyone has a dream: a mountain to climb.
- The army's toughest mountaineers set out to conquer Everest the hard way: via the deadly West Ridge route. Of the 2,219 people who have climbed it, only 19 have made it through the hellish West Ridge, and 21 have died trying. If the team succeeds, they'll make mountaineering history. This behind-the-scenes documentary series follows their progress every step of the way.
- Extreme sports adventure. Follow two lads as they take an ironing board all the way from Cheltenham UK to Mount Everest to compete in the worlds extreme ironing competition. Its a trek over stunning mountain ranges ending up at Everests base camp and then onto the ice fall. Never seen before footage of what its really like up on Mount Everest in an informal and fun way. Never before has an ironing board been taken up the mountain let alone doing daily chores like ironing, Stunning views from the Mountain.
- This documentary about the making of the hit IMAX film, "Everest", details how a climbing team lead by world-famous mountaineer Ed Viesturs and award-winning cinematographer David Breshears got an IMAX camera to the top of the world's highest mountain. Along the way, the filmmakers put down their cameras to help rescue climbers stranded on the mountain by a massive storm that ultimately took the lives of 11 people.
- David Attenborough sets out on an intrepid quest across seven continents to create a unique television event to celebrate the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, so distinctive and so spectacularly beautiful.
- Life on Mt. Everest is hard. Hard on the spirit. Hard on the body. Dr. Luanne Freer assembles an all volunteer staff of doctors, porters and Sherpas in her quest to provide expert high altitude medical care to climbers attempting summit bids on the world's highest peak. Her mission: To take the proceeds garnered from treatments for well-funded expeditions and offer free medical care to the indigenous Sherpa people who make their meager yearly income during the climbing season. When American climber Joe Hughes contracts High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) at 24,000 feet, his lungs begin to fill and teammates must drag him 7,000 vertical feet down the mountain to Dr. Freer. By the time he arrives at Everest E.R., he is literally drowning in his own blood.
- On the 30th April 2017 world famous climber Ueli Steck died on Mount Nuptse whilst acclimatising for one of his biggest climbs yet - climbing both Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse without the use of bottled oxygen. A year later, Ueli's close friends Jon Griffith and Sherpa Tenji attempted to finish off his project. Tenji would try the climb without bottled oxygen whilst internationally award-winning cameraman Griffith captured the story in 8K 3D Ambisonic Audio Virtual Reality. Only 175 people have ever stood on earth's highest point without the use of bottled oxygen; more people have been in to space than have accomplished this feat. Whilst Sherpa Tenji has already summited Everest without the use of bottled oxygen before, would he have what it takes to do it again? Follow him as he climbs higher and higher into the Death Zone, an area that contains so little oxygen that his body cannot survive for long; it's a race against time. Join them for one of the most immersive adventure experiences ever captured. Witness what it's like to be engulfed in a Himalayan avalanche, cross a crevasse and stare deep in its depths, be caught out in a storm, and take in the view from the top of the world.
- Using a band as a cover story, a group of unlikely rebels with dubious musical skills pass over forbidden borders and into each other's tangled lives in Israel and Palestine.
- The true story of Angelo d'Arrigo, pluri-recordman, and his flight in a hang-glider over Mt Everest, as well as of the two Himalayan Eagles he raised to fly with him.
- A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.
- (2013) Four award-winning films from Big UP Productions and Sender Films.
- Soundtrek Mount Everest : A Musical Journey by Paul Oakenfold hosts 'The Highest Concert on Earth' with Electronic Dance Music Pioneer Paul Oakenfold. Watch Oakenfold and his skilled team make the 37-mile hike through Nepal's remote villages and the Himalayan Mountains for a groundbreaking live concert event, spinning a set at the base camp of Mount Everest.
- Boyd Matson, host of NGS Explorer, goes on an expedition to find out why people climb Mt Everest.
- 300 KM TO EVEREST. From the Alps to Himalayas, trail running and Olympic games star Dawa Sherpa is back to change the world. Races organizer with humanitarian purposes, he offers to run with him in his native mountains. One of this adventure is the Solukhumbu Trail : a 300km and a total elevation gain of 17000m trail running competition, welcome in Nepal .
- Three sons travel to Everest to challenge the mountain that shaped the lives of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay fifty years prior.
- Regarding the top of Mount Everest as one of the most amazing human accomplishments reveals the shallowness of our contemporary culture.
- Mountaineer Dave Hahn has stood on top of the world 15 times. But after 30 years as a guide, the summit of Mt. Everest is no longer the driving force behind his expeditions.
- Sherpas - The true heroes of Mt. Everest, a documentary about the unsung heroes from Nepal with out their help and assistance it is unthinkable to concur the summit of world's highest mountain, the almighty Mount Everest. Yet Sherpas are never on the news, nobody really knew about them and their contribution towards the expedition are easily forgotten. This documentary tries to focus on them and brings out the story of the Sherpas to the world.
- The film shows how the idea of a rescue station has evolved in the Nepali Himalayan region and what challenges the Zermatt-Nepal team faces today.
- In the Kingdom of Nepal, more than 12,000 people have died since the Maoist rebels launched an armed struggle in 1996 to replace the Monarchy with a republican regime. For small businesses, making a living in this unstable climate has become increasingly difficult & dangerous. A Fair Trade company - Dakini, established a direct trade link with a Nepalese paper producer to support their business and in October 2004, a group of Cornish trekkers set out to raise funds to support this initiative by walking to Mount Everest Base Camp. Paper Mountain is a visually stunning, evocative insight into the lives and working conditions of factory workers, farmers and porters struggling to make a living in the Himalayas and Kathmandu.
- Reality adventure series with over 700 applicants, only 5 will be selected through a series of outdoor adventures to attempt the ultimate adventure, to climb the Earth's highest mountain.
- The true story of Tenzing Norgay, a sherpa from Nepal, and his quest to climb Mount Everest, which he could view from his backyard while growing up. He eventually becomes part of the British crew to climb Everest, where he meets Edmund Hillary, his eventual New Zealander partner who he makes history with by becoming the first two men to reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953.