Welcome to Mountain Films Beta

I Believe I can Fly (Flight of the Frenchies)

Towers of the Ennedi

Into Thin Air

40 Days at Base Camp

A Life Ascending

Living the Dream

Rosso 70

Salt

Scottish Ice Trip

Alone on the Wall (First Ascent series)

On Assignment: Jimmy Chin

The Wildest Dream

The Denali Experiment

Mountain Films is a project to build an online movie theatre where you can watch and explore the very best climbing and mountaineering films. Right now we're in start-up mode and looking for partners, so if you're a content owner or film maker we'd love to hear from you.

Highlining pioneers Tancrede and Julien have come to the spectacular cliffs of the Norwegian fjords. They've rigged highlines on the skyscrapers of Paris and the Verdun Gorge now they prepare to take their sport in a totally new and radical direction.
Director / editor: Sébastien Montaz-Rosset
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

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Mark Synnott, James Pearson and Alex Honnold travel to the Ennedi Desert of Chad, the first climbers to explore the remote landscape stacked with wild unclimbed towers.
Director / producer: Renan Ozturk
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

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Harald Philipp and Martin Falkner ride through Ortler region of the Alps, taking on the highest mountains and the steepest slopes.
Directed and produced by Infinite Films
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

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40 Days at Base Camp is a feature length mountain film that puts a knife through the heart of the Everest myth. The film depicts the transformation of Everest from a revered sacred space to the mountain theme park it is becoming.
Director / producer: Dianne Whelan
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

A Life Ascending chronicles the life of acclaimed mountaineer Ruedi Beglinger. Living with his wife and two young daughters on a remote glacier in the vast mountains of British Columbia. Presented as part of the Banff Film Tour.
Director / producer: Stephen Grynberg
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

For most of the last six years, Renan Ozturk has been a traveling vagabond following his passion for rock climbing. This existence involved sleeping outside in wild places, hitching rides, living on little, draining his bank account, and diving in the odd dumpster looking for "gourmet" food.
Director / producer: Renan Ozturk
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

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This heart-felt film retraces 70 years of the climbing group Scoiattoli de Cortina (The Cortina Squirrels). First-hand accounts, crucial historical footage, and wonderful contemporary scenes tell the story of people and mountains, mountaineering and life, happiness and grief, against the backdrop of a slowly changing Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Directors: Francesco Mansutti, Vinicio Stefanello. Producer: Associazione Gruppo Scoiattoli Cortina
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

Salt is the story of award winning and internationally renowned photographer, Murray Fredericks on his annual solo pilgrimage to the heart of Lake Eyre in the remote north corner of South Australia. It is a piece on the personal journey of the artist, the creative process and the landscape itself.
Directors / producers: Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

Ueli Steck is best known for his solo ascent of the Eiger, in this climbing film he goes looking for Scotland's best winter climbs.
© Petzl Crew. Photography: © Tony Lamiche
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

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Twenty-three year old Alex Honnold is taking the high-stakes sport of free solo climbing to new heights. Climbing truly massive walls without a rope, and zero chance of survival if he falls.
Director / producer: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen, Josh Lowell
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

Jimmy Chin is in front and behind the camera as he shoots a National Geographic story on the climbing culture in Yosemite. It’s a short portrait of a passionate athlete who has melded his loves of climbing and photography into an art form.
Directed and produced: Renan Ozturk and Jimmy Chin
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

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George Mallory was obsessed with becoming the first person to conquer the untouched Mount Everest. He was last seen 800 feet below the summit in 1924, before the clouds rolled in and he disappeared into legend. His death stunned the world.
Director: Anthony Geffen. Producers: Anthony Geffen and Claudia Perkins. © Altitude Films
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

Free-ride skier Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and big mountain snowboarder Lucas Debari step out of their elements and make an attempt to climb, ski and snowboard Denali.
Director / producer: Jimmy Chin © Camp 4 Collective
Photography: © JWhite
Presented at the Banff Film Festival and film festivals worldwide. Rock climbing and mountain climbing films at Mountain Films Beta.

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