Meru, a 2015 documentary film co-directed by Jimmy Chin and his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, thrills. The awe-inspiring film examines the 2011 first ascent of a new route up a 4,000-foot wall ...

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 ...

The most treacherous mountain on earth, deep in the hinterlands of India’s Garhwal Himalayas, soars 21,850 feet off the deck. Mount Meru carves the sky with a massive, stone replica of a great white ...

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 ...

While studying at Princeton, E. Chai Vasarhelyi made her first film, A Normal Life, about youth living in Kosovo during the Bosnian War. Her next three films chronicled life and conflict in war-torn ...

A new documentary charts the attempts of a trio of American climbers to be the first to scale Meru Peak, a 21,000-foot Himalayan peak. Critic... Climbing Documentary 'Meru' Is A Hair-Raising 'Peak ...

Meru is a 2015 documentary film co-directed by Jimmy Chin and his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. The awe-inspiring film examines the 2011 first ascent of a new route up a 4,000-foot wall known as the ...

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 ...

Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Watch the trailer for “Meru,” a new documentary capturing the high-stakes journey of some of the world’s most experienced climbers up India's Mount Meru. Photo: Music Box Films ...