There have been mountain climbing films for ages, but few have been as realistic and as harrowing and as jaw-dropping as “Meru.” The doc details a pair of attempts to scale Mount Meru, which towers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It was extremely difficult to relive it. I’ve been climbing professionally for almost 20 years and you learn that failure is very ...

Elite mountain climber Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi collaborated on a movie, “Meru” (Music Box, August 14) unlike any you’ve ever seen before. The difference between this survival doc and ...

As a genre, climbing films are a risky enterprise, pocked with philosophical crevasses, hackneyed themes, and obvious pitfalls: you need to get outside your comfort zone; it isn’t so much the fear of ...

Last night Meru, the new film sharing the story of Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk’s quest for one of alpinism’s great prizes, won the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at Sundance Film ...

Even within the extreme sport of alpine climbing — a sport many of us would never even think of attempting — there are challenges that stand out. The Shark’s Fin at Meru Peak is one of those. Located ...