Two harrowing attempts at an 'impossible climb' in the Himalayas bookend this engrossing extreme-sports docu. The “Shark’s Fin” on Mount Meru in northern India is a Holy Grail for big wall climbers, ...

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 ...

The footage runs from breathtaking to outright frightening, and the story is one of courage and perseverance, but at some point while watching the rock-climbing documentary “Meru,” it’s natural 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 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 ...

Critic’s rating: 4 stars out of 5 Chin and Vasarhelyi effectively cut between climbing footage and backstory of how they got there. The visuals are stunning, and shot by two of the climbers. “Because ...

“Yeah, yeah,” says Jennifer, wife of legendary mountaineer Conrad Anker. “Stuff can happen.” The nonchalance masks a deeper fear but even so, that has to be an early contender for understatement of ...