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

How far would you go to get a good cup of coffee? Would you drive down the street? Would you go across town? How about jetting off to Tanzania? The organizers of the Mt. Meru Coffee Project believe it ...

“Meru” will open your eyes — and not just visually, as you might expect from a documentary on an obsessive quest to be the first to climb an impossible peak in the Himalayas, but psychologically as ...

Mount Everest is nothing compared to the Shark’s Fin. While Everest is the tallest mountain in the world (29,029 feet), Meru, also in the Himalayas, is the most difficult to climb. No one has ...

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 ...

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 ...

There have been mountain climbing films for ages, but few have been as realistic and as harrowing and as jaw-dropping as “Meru.” The doc details a pair of attempts to scale Mount Meru, which towers ...

[Jon] The Shark's Fin, the Meru Central. This climb has seen more attempts and more failures than any route in the Himalaya. way up high, you know, 20,000 feet. This is the test of the master climber.

(eTN) – President Kikwete opened the Mt. (eTN) – President Kikwete opened the Mt. Meru Hotel last weekend during a grand ceremony witnessed by owners, management, staff, the invited tourism fraternity ...

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 ...

(eTN) – December 17 has been provisionally set for the re-opening of Mt. Meru Hotel in Arusha after well over a two years of closure for rebuilding and refurbishments. (eTN) – December 17 has been ...