The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five ...

A photograph of Conrad Anker on the Meru expedition, courtesy of filmmaker and climber Jimmy Chin You know about Mount Everest, but have you heard of Meru? The central peak of the Himalayan mountain, ...

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Would you support your friend if he wanted to risk his life conquering a dream? In the Sundance award-winning documentary film “Meru”, this dream involves climbing a 20,702 foot mountain carrying 200 ...

Because Vasarhelyi and Chin’s new documentary Free Solo is in select theaters now. Rather than documenting another one of his own expeditions, Chin and Vasarhelyi spent a few years following Alex ...

“Meru” will open your eyes, and more than once. Not just visually, as you might expect from a documentary on the obsessive quest to be the first to climb the most impossible peak in the Himalayas, but ...

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 ...

The footage runs from breathtaking to outright frightening, and the story is one of courage and perseverance, but at some point while watching the rock-climbing documentary “Meru,” it’s natural to ...

Before 2011, no one had ever climbed to the summit of the “shark’s fin,” a blade-like outcropping of ice-and-snow-covered rock rising to a height of 21,000 feet from the back of Mount Meru in the ...

“Meru” will open your eyes, and more than once. Not just visually, as you might expect from a documentary on the obsessive quest to be the first to climb the most impossible peak in the Himalayas, but ...