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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The film “Meru” is a documentary that follows three elite climbers attempting to conquer Meru Peak, one of the most challenging walls on the Himalayas. It won the U.S. documentary audience award at ...
In the new feature documentary Meru, the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winning film in theaters August 14, climbers Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk share the story of making ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jimmy Chin is an Asian American elite athlete, known for his mountaineering prowess, and accomplishments throughout the world. In 2006 he achieved the first successful American ski descent from the ...
Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's mountaineering saga won Sundance's Audience Award in the documentary section. By Neil Young A high-tech, high-octane, high-fiving addition to the venerable ...