Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of hikers follows a path near the Rwenzori Mountains, a mountain range in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In the 20,700-foot climb to reach the summit of Mount Meru in the Himalayas, considered one of the hardest climbs in the world, Jimmy Chin saw a canvas for a documentary. Chin, who had climbed Mt.

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 ...

Growing up in the flatlands of Mankato, Jimmy Chin never dreamed he'd become a mountain climber — until a trip with his family to Glacier National Park filled his head with grand ideas. "I remember ...

A group of hikers follows a path near the Rwenzori Mountains, a mountain range in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and a less-crowded hiking alternative to Mount Kilimanjaro. EyeEm Mobile GmbH, ...