When you get a climber’s eye view of “The Shark’s Fin” jutting skyward at the very top of the 21,000-foot Meru Peak in the Himalayas, you feel a rock sinking in your stomach, even though you’re ...

What would you die for? That's the booming question that comes to mind during Meru, a new documentary that follows three mountain climbers in their high-stakes pursuit of making it over the Shark's ...

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, ...

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 ...

The allure of Meru Peak and its Shark’s Fin climbing route is simple. The mountain, a 21,850-foot jagged monster in India’s Gharwal Himalayas, is believed by Hindus to be the center of the universe.

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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