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Here are 7 Christmas presents for skiers. Last year’s Christmas presents for skiers were purely ski related, but this year I wanted to provide some new ideas. I recently watched the North Face, and I enjoyed it very much. So I came up with an idea of telling our thousands of readers that “hey, these DVD’s are absolutely worth watching!”.

If you are looking for Christmas presents for skiers, I strongly recommend these movies. All mountain people love watching awesome mountains, such as those in Himalaya.

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Christmas Present Idea for Skiers #1 – Touching the Void

Touching the Void is an awesome story of survival. It is a document of two climbers getting into serious trouble after summiting Siula Grande in Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson went went through extreme situations after Simon Yates had to cut the rope. No wonder why Touching the Void is on the top of my list of Christmas presents for skiers.

Here’s what they say about the DVD.

In 1985, two British mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring–arguably reckless in the extreme–attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain Siula Grande. A mixture of overconfidence in their own abilities and underestimation of the climb’s difficulties brought them to grief after the successful slog to the summit. What follows is an often harrowing account of their perilous descent.

Based on Joe Simpson’s gripping book, the film boasts glorious widescreen photography of Siula Grande and its notorious glacier. Actors take the place of the two climbers for close-ups, though Simpson did return to Peru in order to reenact parts of his dreadful crawl back down the ice. The story of Simpson’s almost-superhuman fortitude has become legendary in climbing circles, and even for viewers uninterested in mountaineering, Touching the Void is an astonishing slice of real-life drama, magnificently retold.

Christmas Present Idea for Skiers #2 – Messner

In 1978, Reinhold Messner and his climbing partner, Peter Habeler, stunned the world by reaching the summit of Mt. Everest without using bottled oxygen. When asked why he would attempt climbing Everest without oxygen — something that was unimaginable at the time — Messner answered, “I’m doing this for knowing myself. If I put some important technical thing between me and the mountains, I will never have the possibility to know myself, to explore myself.” He returned to Everest two years later and climbed it again without using supplemental oxygen, but this time alone; and he went on to become the first to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without using oxygen.

In this exclusive documentary, the first on Messner since Werner Herzog’s “Dark Glow of the Mountains” in 1984, he looks back over his career with surprising candor and personal revelation. It is the career of a man who began climbing with his father in the exquisite Italian Dolomites, but whose restless quest for self-knowledge through extreme adventures made him the greatest climber of modern times.

Today Messner today carries on a diversified business related to his mountaineering skills. From 1999 to 2004, he held political office as a Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Green Party (Federazione dei Verdi). He was also among the founders of Mountain Wilderness, an international NGO dedicated to the protection of mountains worldwide.

Christmas Present Idea for Skiers #3 – Everest

Relive a breathtaking journey to the top of the world with Everest, the spectacular giant-screen motion picture for IMAX theatres! Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, Everest documents the filmmakers’ harrowing rescue efforts to help surviving members of the ill-fated group. Join an international team of climbers as they scale the world’s tallest peak. Witness the perils of skin-blistering cold, violent blizzards that drop the windchill to minus 100 degrees, and air so thin it numbs the mind. Everest will take you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs and into the death zone of oxygen-thin altitude. Filmed in spellbinding IMAX photography, “the most hyperrealistic format yet invented,” says producer Greg MacGillivray. Narrated by Academy Award(R)-nominee Liam Neeson, including the music of George Harrison, Everest is a rich, dramatic story — a daring adventure of triumph and tragedy.

Sorry, that was the sales pitch, but it pretty well describes what this film is about. If you enjoy watching those huge Himalayan snow covered peaks, check this DVD.

Christmas Present Idea for Skiers #4 – The Alps

In the air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned fathers life. Against a backdrop of overwhelming natural beauty, The Alps is a true-life story of extraordinary courage. It’s the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason not to climb the deadly Eiger North Face, yet climb it he must.

I watched The Alps 2-3 weeks ago, and I personally found it very interesting. Eiger is an interesting and scary mountain, and you can really feel it in this DVD. The Alps contains lots and lots of awesome shots and camera angles from extremely exposed places on the north face of the Eiger. Strongly recommended!

Christmas Present Idea for Skiers #5 – North Face

I watched North Face last weekend, and all I can say is that this DVD is worth watching, and it is a great Christmas present for skiers or other mountain men. Ok, I can actually say few words more.. North face is a stunning story of climbing the Eiger during the early days.It is based on true story, and it is perfectly done. On top of excellent camera work you can also see very nice climbing of the early days.

Here’s the pitch.

Journey to a heart-stopping landscape of danger and relive 48 white-knuckle hours that would go down in history. This is the incredible story behind the first ever attempted scaling of the North Face of the infamous Eiger mountain. Summer 1936. Bearing the expectations of a nation and their Fuhrer, two climbers set out to be the first to conquer the last great problem . But soon their ascent becomes a race for survival threatened by injury and extreme storms. Suddenly, it becomes a pulse-pounding race against both time and the awesome forces of nature.

Christmas Present Idea for Skiers #6 – National Geographic – Everest 50 Years on the Mountain

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top of Everest. Now, 50 years later, three sons of Everest’s most celebrated climbers return to the mountain to challenge it again. Join their journey as they brave the elements and face death to climb 29,000 feet of wind-blasted rock and ice. And, relive the dramatic history of Everest from great triumphs to deadly tragedies, enduring rivalries and the unsung role of the Sherpa people – as National Geographic exposes the untold stories that lurk in the mountain’s epic shadow and takes you on THE ultimate Everest experience.

Christmas Present Idea for Skiers #7 – The Man Who Skied Down Everest

This incredible, award-winning film features adventurer, poet and world-champion skier Yuichiro Miura as he and his team face the most challenging climb in the world, Mt. Everest. The ascent is fraught with tragedy, the descent miraculous. During the climb, they face an icefall that claims the lives of six of their team, still considered the worst natural disaster accident in Himalayan history.

With a 35mm Panavision film crew in tow, they continue on to the South Col, only 350 meters from the summit, where Miura put his life in the hands of the gods in his descent. Using oxygen and a parachute to slow his speed, Miura skied 7,000 feet over sheer ice and rocks. Unbalanced by the gusting winds, he hit a boulder and fell 1,320 feet, smashing into rocks and ice ridges. A patch of snow was all that saved him, allowing his fall to end just moments away from the Bergshrund Crevasse. This final climax has been called the most exciting six minutes of film ever shot as Miura plummets helplessly down Everest’s unforgiving icy slopes toward certain death.