Adventures on the Roof of the World
Adventures on the Roof of the World
Adventures on the Roof of the World Free Online HD YesMovies. The film collects material from different mountain adventures in the Alps filmed by Frederick Burlingham. From alpine climbing on the slopes of the Jungfrau to mountaineering and rock climbing in the glaciers and rock pinnacles of the Mont Blanc Massif. Frederick Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the Matterhorn', was a traveller cinematographer and one of the mountain film pioneers. Continuing the mountain film tradition established by Ormiston-Smith, Burlingham filmed several mountaineering films largely in Switzerland, taking mountain film in a new direction of immediacy and perceived peril.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Switzerland
- Director: Frederick Burlingham
- Cast: Frederick Burlingham,
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