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 ...

‘Meru’ 3 out of 4 stars Stars: Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Length: 90 minutes Rated: R for language “Because it’s there.” Those words, attributed to ...

"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 difficult peak in the Himalayas, but ...

A viewer expects some high drama in a documentary about scaling one of the world’s most challenging mountains. What you might not expect is feeling the impulse to sink into your chair in a state of ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...