‘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 ...

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, ...

"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 difficult peak in the Himalayas, but ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...