Norman Dyhrenfurth Trailers
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey TrailerHigh and Hallowed: Everest 1963 TrailerNawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger Trailer
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey TrailerHigh and Hallowed: Everest 1963 TrailerNawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger Trailer
Total trailers found: 11
31 October 1971
In 1971, American Norman Dyhrenfurth led an expedition of 30 climbers from 13 different countries, including Don Whillans, Dougal Haston, Naomi Uemura, Pierre Mazeaud, Michel Vaucher, and others.
10 September 1965
"In 1963, Swiss climber Norman Dyhrenfurth began 'a little war against a big mountain.' Leading 19 Americans, 32 Sherpas, and 909 porters carrying 27 tons of gear, Dyhrenfurth spearheaded the highly successful 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition for his adopted country.
01 January 1993
In this documentary first broadcast in 1993, Chris Bonington looks back at the first ever expeditions to conquer Mount Everest and the effect that the achievement of climbing the mountain had on climbing as a whole worldwide.
26 May 2017
Fred Beckey is the legendary American "Dirtbag" mountaineer whose name is spoken in hushed tones around campfires.
19 September 2013
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 is the deepest story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history.
22 February 2013
The nephew of Tenzing Norgay, Nawang Gombu was the youngest Sherpa climber on the 1953 Everest expedition carrying supplies above 25000 feet.
01 January 2006
Don Whillans was one of the leading rock climbers of his generation. This film examines Don’s gritstone horrors, his hard routes in Wales, then follows him to the Alps and beyond on several of his epic expeditions.
17 May 1989
In 1986, Kurt Diemberger and his companion Julie Tullis came back to the K2, after two failed expeditions, in order to finally stand on the summit of the mountain of all mountains.
01 January 1970
Challenges; mental, physical, both? How far can you go? How fast? What’s it like to go three days without food and companionship? To run 15 miles, to climb a 14,000 foot mountain, to navigate in dense forest or open ocean, to rappel down a vertical cliff, or sleep in the snow? Teenagers find out in Outward Bound Schools throughout the country.
30 November 2003
On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless mountain", only 240 reached the summit and more than 60 perished in the ascent.
02 January 1969
"Ski The Outer Limits" is a poetic exploration of man's "conquest of the useless," his quest to expand the limists of his abilities.