There’s steady, scary thrill in the final third of Meru, the latest attempt to conquer the climb-and-tweak-the-nose-of-God mountaineering documentary, a genre that has yet to reach its apex. The ...

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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 ...

The Giripremi mountaineering club from Pune, India is leading an expedition to the unclimbed east ridge of Meru South in the Garhwal Himalaya. It follows their historic 2023 ascent of Meru's west face ...

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 ...

Before 2011, no one had ever climbed to the summit of the “shark’s fin,” a blade-like outcropping of ice-and-snow-covered rock rising to a height of 21,000 feet from the back of Mount Meru in the ...

Simon Gietl, Mathieu Maynadier, Roger Schäli climbing Meru in India via their 'Goldfish' 800m, M6+ A1). © Simon Gietl, Mathieu Maynadier, Roger Schäli ...