Meru, a 2015 documentary film co-directed by Jimmy Chin and his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, thrills. The awe-inspiring film examines the 2011 first ascent of a new route up a 4,000-foot wall ...

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 ...

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 ...

While studying at Princeton, E. Chai Vasarhelyi made her first film, A Normal Life, about youth living in Kosovo during the Bosnian War. Her next three films chronicled life and conflict in war-torn ...

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 ...