Short Doc Movies

Released in 1930. Direction, production, writing & cinematography by Adam Krzeptowski

Britain's first complete rock climbing film, by Stanley Watson. A film about climbing in the Lakes. Norah Johnstone, a teacher at Keswick Grammar...

Short version of 'Nanga Parbat' (1936), the record of the 1934 German expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Willy Merkl and with the full backing of the...

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Documentary on one of the first editions of the Trofeo Mezzalama, the highest ski mountaineering race in Europe, at more than 4,200 meters above sea...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A travelogue set in the jungles of Borneo.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Along New Zealand’s South Islands runs the mighty chain of the Southern Alps, where large and beautiful glaciers and Ice-falls abound among the...

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

Released on September 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Three mountaineers, including a woman, climb the l'Aiguille du Moine, in the Mont Blanc Massif departing from the Couvercle Shelter. Facing walls...

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on October 16th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.