# The best mountaineering movies

The Eiger North Face, Everest and Free Solo: the best fiction and documentary films about mountaineering, according to Bergfreunde, Via Ferrata and Rauf und davon.

- 207 votes · 14 items
- Feb 8, 2022 · frankfurtbuecherwurm
- https://even.best/en/l/4168/the-best-mountaineering-movies

## Top 10

1. **North Face (2008)** (25 · ▲25 ▼0) — Two German climbers on the Eiger North Face in 1936.
2. **Touching the Void (2003)** (21 · ▲22 ▼1) — Joe Simpson and Simon Yates on Siula Grande.
3. **Nanga Parbat (2010)** (14 · ▲16 ▼2) — Reinhold and Günther Messner in 1970, by Joseph Vilsmaier.
4. **Everest (2015)** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — The Everest disaster of May 1996.
5. **The Alpinist (2021)** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — Canadian solo climber Marc-André Leclerc.
6. **Free Solo (2018)** (12 · ▲17 ▼5) — Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan without a rope; Oscar for best documentary.
7. **Meru (2015)** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Three climbers on Meru's Shark's Fin.
8. **The Challenge (1938)** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — The race to the Matterhorn, with Luis Trenker.
9. **Seven Years in Tibet (1997)** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Heinrich Harrer after escaping from the camp.
10. **14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Nirmal Purja climbs all the eight-thousanders in seven months.
11. **To the Limit (2007)** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — The Huber brothers chasing a speed record in Yosemite.
12. **Vertical Limit (2000)** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — A rescue on K2.
13. **Scream of Stone (1991)** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — A contest on Cerro Torre, by Werner Herzog.
14. **Cliffhanger (1993)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — A mountain rescuer against criminals in the Rockies.

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