Summary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MERSummary: "In the heart of downtown Seattle is the Union Gospel Mission - a homeless shelter catering to the addicted and the abused. For these men and women, hope is a novelty, self-esteem a luxury, and recovery a faraway ideal. But within the UGM is one man, an ex-Army Ranger, who believes in them. Believes in life. Believes in mountains. And he will attempt to use one of the most treacherous peaks in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NEWSummary: Two blind men and a man who is a double leg amputee, together with companies who create assistive techniques and technologies, climb a difficult eight pitch rock during the No Barriers Festival in the Dolomites in Cortina, Italy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Serac Adventure Films 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOUSummary: Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EVE RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EVESummary: "Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1975, this stirring chronicle tells the tale of Japanese alpinist Yūichirō Miura and his attempt to ski down Mt. Everest in 1970"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Film Detective 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: Sir Edmund Hillary was a bee-keeper, mountaineer, war veteran, explorer, philanthropist, husband, father, and the first person to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest. From his childhood in South Auckland, New Zealand, to the plane crash that killed his wife and daughter, the intriguing drama portrays the life, loves, and losses of one of the most famous explorers of all time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIRSummary: As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of High Camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears, who aided the rescue efforts back in 1996, now...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOSummary: When a climber encounters a stranded stranger on Mt. Washington, she must get them both down the mountain before nightfall when an oncoming blizzard is due to hit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INFCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INFSummary: "Hailed as one of the most prolific and influential climbers of all time, Fred Beckey has become a cult hero in the outdoor world. Eschewing fame, sponsors and family life so his only obligation would be the next summit, this rebel athlete conquered more unclimbed peaks than anyone in history during his 80-year career, staying myopically focused on the mountains until age 94...."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIRSummary: From Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers, ice climbers, free soloists, heliskiers, snowboarders, and parachuting mountain bikers. Willem Dafoe provides a narration sampled from British mountaineer Robert Macfarlane's acclaimed memoir Mountains of the Mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwich Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 796.522 MOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOUSummary: Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepalese guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: The award-winning feature documentary tells the inspiring journey of Cliff, Ahmani, and Nicholas, three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four 12,000 ft snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASummary: Aron Ralston has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn adversity into triumph.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Searchlight Pictures 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 127 RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONESummary: Summiting Mount Everest is a grueling and dangerous endeavor, known to torture the mind, body, and soul of those who even dare. When a 68-year-old great grandfather attempts this feat, what ensued was the worst disaster in mountaineering history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vision films 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ACCSummary: Two hotshot solo climbers forge an uneasy friendship in order to reach their ultimate summit. A daring rescue just earned flamboyant Derrick Williams the climb of a lifetime, but his dream comes with an unwanted partner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: World Wide Pictures Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Climb 2002Globe Trekker
Summary: Shows a variety of trekking destinations around the world, visiting each continent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 BESSummary: 2001 National Federation of the Blind, Allegra Mount Everest Expedition featuring Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to reach the summit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Outside Television 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSummary: When mountain climbers are trapped by an avalanche on 28,250 foot-high mountain K2 in Pakistan, a rescue team races against time to save them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Vertical 2001Summary: In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004