Alpine Movies

...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...

Along New Zealand’s South Islands runs the mighty chain of the Southern Alps, where large and beautiful glaciers and Ice-falls abound among the...

A rock climbing in the Bavarian Allgäu Alps in Germany. The camera follows two mountaineers on a climb. We see all stages of the ascent, from...

Released in 1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Four roped men descend through the seracs of the Mer de Glace. One of them falls and has to be hoisted. The shot belongs to a collection of scenes...

A climbing expedition by a mountain guide and a woman to the summit of Mount Wedgwood, on a training climb in preparation for an attempt to scale...

"The ascent of the Aiguilles Ravanel and Mummery", climbed by young guides in cycling pants: The brothers Armand Charlet and Georges Charlet, Arthur...

The ascent of the Zinalrothorn filmed by Frederick Burlingham in September 1916. Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the...

Showing lady and gentleman climbers with guides negotiating difficult situations until finally their progress is stopped by a cow in their path which...

Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards...

The Tagliamento, known as the "King of the Alpine Rivers," is considered Europe's last untamed river. Its course stretches from the peaks of the...

Released in 1917.

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

After a mountaineer is killed attempting to climb a difficult mountain, his son dreams of conquering the peak that has defeated his father. But his...

Austria and the Alps is the title of a 18 minutes travelogue by Burton Holmes produced to be distributed by the Paramount. The travelogue consisted...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A mountain film set around the popular ski pass in the 1930s.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Exploration on the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland. Starting from the station at Jungfraujoch we climb up toward the Glacier, which is 14 miles long and...

A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...