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I really didn’t know what I was getting into. Meru is kind of obscure. There isn’t much publicity around peaks that people have failed to climb. But I was invited by Conrad Anker, the captain of The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of Conrad Anker on the Meru expedition, courtesy of filmmaker and climber Jimmy Chin You know about Mount Everest, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

“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.

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.