Chris Bonington

Everest Revisited 1924 - 2024 (2024)

Everest Revisited 1924 - 2024, uses extensive historical footage, as well as interviews with Everest scholars and mountaineers, to tell the story of the 1924 Everest expedition and to ask questions about what the mountain means to climbers and Nepalis 100 ...

Everest - The Hard Way (2021)

Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes (2019)

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 Everest in 1953 with his friend Johnny Cunningham, and almost stole the peak before Hillary and Tenzing. As an exp ...

Bonington: Mountaineer (2017)

From his rock climbing days in the UK through to visionary ascents on the high peaks of the Himalaya and shares the remarkable and poignant life of one of the world's best-known mountaineers. ...

Everest: The South West Face (2017)

Documentary directed by Neil Armstrong. ...

On ne marche qu'une fois sur la lune (2014)

When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema (2000)

Many mountaineers as part of their activity have used cameras and films to allow us to participate through images in their adventures and their emotions. Many of them have become true film professionals: Joseph Vallot, Lionel Terray, Marcel Ichac, Renè Ve ...

Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine (1999)

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

Galahad of Everest (1991)

Brian Blessed plays George Mallory in this intrepid recreation of his ill fated 1924 climb to Everest. Meeting Sir Chris Bonington, Rheinhold Messnerhe learns of the pitfalls that await him before setting off for his epic struggle with the mountain. ...

K2 - Triumph And Tragedy On The Savage Mountain (1988)

Chris Bonington and Jim Curran trace the history of K2 expeditions from 1903 to the disastrous loss of life in the summer of 1986, when 13 climbers died on K2, climbing tragedies that aggressively carved the epithet the 'savage mountain' into the public co ...

Annapurna South Face (1971)

This entertaining film documents the first ascent of the very difficult South Face of Annapurna, a huge Himalayan wall that the right team could achieve the seemingly impossible. The ascent of the South Face of Annapurna in 1970 was one of those breakthrou ...