mountaineers

Chronicles the experiences of a team of mountain climbers who were trapped on Mount McKinley in Alaska during one of the worst storms to hit the mountain in the twentieth century.

Presents the true story of four young American rock climbers who were kidnapped by militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in August 2000 while in the Pamir-Altai Mountains and endured six days of captivity before taking drastic action to escape.

Lincoln Hall describes his experiences after deciding to pursue a long-delayed dream to climb Mt. Everest in the spring of 2006, telling how he was declared dead and left behind after he collapsed from altitude sickness and Sherpas were unable to revive him, and discussing his miraculous rescue by an American guide the following day who discovered him sitting on the summit ridge, frostbitten, confused, but still alive.

Presents the true stories of five women who reached the summit of K2 in the Karakoram mountain range along the border of China and Pakistan and examines how these women lived and died.

Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest.

Eighty-eight-year-old explorer Norman Vaughan revisits the Queen Maude Mountains in Antarctica to climb the mountain named for him 65 years earlier by Admiral Richard E. Byrd; twelve-year-old adventurer Merrick Johnston becomes the youngest person ever to scale Denali, North America's highest peak.

Chronicles Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 expedition to the summit of Mount Everest, describing how the pair became the first to ever reach the mountain's summit, the preparations they made for the climb, and the challenges they faced along the way.