Chris Bonington Movies

In this documentary first broadcast in 1993, Chris Bonington looks back at the first ever expeditions to conquer Mount Everest and the effect that...

A team of Slovak mountaineers attempt the ascent of the southwest face of Everest, dubbed "the hard way" by Mountaineer Chris Bonington.

Based on a true story about a mountaineer named Lucy Walker who becomes the first woman to climb the Matterhorn in 1871.

Everest Revisited 1924 - 2024, uses extensive historical footage, as well as interviews with Everest scholars and mountaineers, to tell the story of...

Documentary directed by Neil Armstrong.

Documentary on John Hawkridge, who has suffered cerebral palsy since birth, and despite his immense difficulties with walking has a great passion for...

Sir Chris Bonington’s return to Torres del Paine, 62 years after the first ascent of the Central Tower. At 91 years old, and while living with...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jill Lawrence and Gill Price, members of the women's climbing club Pinnacle Club, made the first female ascents of...

This entertaining film documents the first ascent of the very difficult South Face of Annapurna, a huge Himalayan wall that the right team could...

The legend of Hamish MacInnes began early. At 16 he climbed the Matterhorn. At 17 he built his first motor car – from scratch. He attempted...

Many mountaineers as part of their activity have used cameras and films to allow us to participate through images in their adventures and their...

This is the story of two expeditions to two mountains, one in Argentina the other in Chile. Despite being twelve years apart, one man went on both...

The making of a climbing series is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in Eagle Crag and Dove Crag. It was directed by Jo Wright in...

Breathtaking climbing sequences. As a guide, none other than "The Rock Queen" Catherine Destivelle. Climbing companions of the caliber of Chris...

NOVA documentary inquiring into the fate of early Everest explorers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine

Documenting the endless pursuit of staying outside for longer.