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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

The documentary “Meru” is the edge-of-the seat story of their return three years later for a second go at the treacherous peak. Before 2011, no one had ever climbed to the summit of the “shark’s fin,” ...

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 ...

When asked why they are compelled to climb dangerous mountains such as Mount Everest, neither Conrad Anker nor Jimmy Chin mentions fame or glory. They talk about the passion and friendship of the ...

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 ...