Last week, I attended a lunch at New York’s 21 Club celebrating the hit mountaineering documentary, “Meru.” The film’s producer/director E. Chai Vasarhelyi and her husband climber/cameraman Jimmy Chin ...

One of the world’s most difficult climbs will be featured in a documentary showing at South Lake Tahoe’s Unity at the Lake this Friday, Jan. 22. “Meru” documents attempts to climb the Shark Fin on ...

After winning the US Documentary Audience Award at this year’s Sundance, the heart-pounding mountain climbing documentary “Meru” is soon set to hit theaters. To celebrate the release of Jimmy Chin and ...

Choose carefully, as for some this not a metaphor. The mythic Mount Meru in the Himalayas is thought to be the center of the universe, in that it "govern[s] the courses of heavenly bodies," writes ...

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 ...

When you see what Anker, Chin, and climbing partner Renan Ozturk expose themselves to over the course of their grueling trek — a laundry list of setbacks that includes frostbite, trenchfoot, a ghastly ...

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 ...

When asked why they are compelled to climb dangerous mountains such as Mount Everest, neither Conrad Anker nor Jimmy Chin mentions fame or glory. They talk about the passion and friendship of the ...

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 ...

Recapping this year's Sundance Film Festival, and a chat with the co-director of "Meru," which won the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary; actor Randall Park goes from the fire ("The Interview") to ...

In the 20,700-foot climb to reach the summit of Mount Meru in the Himalayas, considered one of the hardest climbs in the world, Jimmy Chin saw a canvas for a documentary. Chin, who had climbed Mt.

“It was extremely difficult to relive it. I’ve been climbing professionally for almost 20 years and you learn that failure is very much a part of being a climber, and probably 50% of the expeditions ...