Here are details of selected films in the National Library and the Moving Image Archive relating to mountains and mountaineering.
You can view titles with MIA numbers at the Library's premises at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow. Email the Moving Image Archive to make an appointment and for details of copes that you can hire or buy. You can see the other titles in our reading rooms.
- 'Among the clouds' — Assiniboine Range in the Canadian Rockies (9 minutes), 1952 [MIA.1065]
- 'As long as you're young' — A year of youth hostelling in Scotland (24 minutes), 1964 [MIA.2804]
- 'Call of the Campsies' — Walking through the Campsies (9 minutes) 1946 [MIA.4340]
- 'The Climbers' — Educational film for young people (19 minutes), 1971 [MIA.1811]
- 'Climbing in Skye' — Promotional film for Viking nylon rope (9 minutes), 1947 [MIA.3541]
- 'Cragsman's day' — Scrambling on 'The Cobbler' (10 minutes), 1946 [MIA.1086]
- 'Crowberry Ridge' — An ascent of this ridge on Buchaille Etive Mor (11 minutes), 1928 [MIA.3088]
- Himalayan holiday — Views of Himalayan scenes including Everest and home of Sherpa Tenzing (14 minutes), 1953? [MIA.0134]
- 'Glencoe and Nevis' — Hillwalking and rock climbing in the Glencoe / Ben Nevis area (11 minutes), 1949 [MIA.1887]
- 'Holidays in Austria and Germany' — Scenes of alpine village life (15 minutes), 1936 [MIA.3662]
- 'In days of old' — Repeat of early climb in period costume to commemorate 50th anniversary of the Scottish Ladies Climbing Club (10 minutes), 1958 [MIA.2150]
- 'Kalimpong' — Missionary work in East Himalaya (44 minutes), 19--. [MIA.4292]
- 'Land of mountain and flood' — Lochaber and West Highlands (60 minutes), 1991 [Video.161]
- 'Munro show' — Climbing some of the 'Munros' with Muriel Gray (60 mins), 1995 [Video.106]
- 'Munro show' — More 'Munros (60 minutes), 1995 [Video.107]
- 'Over the sea to Skye' — A tour through Skye which includes a little climbing (18 minutes), 1955 [MIA.0363]
- 'Ratagan/Torridon' — Youth hostellers climb 'The Saddle' (12 minutes), 1955 [MIA.1881]
- 'Rhum and water' — Celebrating 50th anniversary of the Scottish Ladies Climbing Club (5 minutes), 1958 [MIA.2155]
- 'To the top of Ben Nevis' — A boy and his uncle climb Ben Nevis (10 minutes), 1949 [MIA.1651]
- 'Where the Ben stands sentinel' — A hiking holiday (20 minutes), 1932 [MIA.3674]
- 'Wings over Everest' — The story of the Houston Mount Everest flight (41 minutes), 1934 [MIA.7075]
- 'Winter comes to the hills' — Snowy landscape views (14 minutes), 1946. [MIA.4383]