In 2008, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk set out to climb the Shark's Fin of Mount Meru in the Himalayas, a route that peaks at 20,700 feet. No one had ever made it to the top.

A photographer and professional climber of some of the most challenging peaks in the world, Jimmy Chin decided to share one of his passion projects with the world with Meru. The documentary began ...

From humble beginnings in midwestern corn country, Jimmy Chin has risen to become one of the world’s most accomplished adventure photographer-filmmakers, and his magnum opus, Meru, debuted in ...

Elite mountain climber Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi collaborated on a movie, “Meru” (Music Box, August 14) unlike any you’ve ever seen before. The difference between this ...

From skiing down Everest to climbing up Shark's Fin on Mount Meru in the Himalaya, Jimmy Chin is a real-life superhero tackling feats no one has done before. But surprisingly, this extreme ...

They tried, and failed, to scale Meru. After 20 days, a mere 150 meters from the summit, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk turned around. The weather didn't suit the final ascent.

and Jimmy Chincompleted a historic first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru in the Garwhal Himalaya. This was Anker’s third attempt at the climb, Ozturk and Chin’s second. The three ...

World class climber Jimmy Chin met his future wife, filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi, over a mountain – of footage. He had been working for a number of years on the documentary that would become Meru ...

In 2008, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted to summit Meru, a 21,000-foot mountain in the Garhwal Himalayas in northern India. Some of the greatest climbers in the world have ...

The physical suffering and danger on display in Meru make The Revenant look like a teddy bear's picnic. Thankfully, the ruggedness is leavened by a painstaking enquiry into who Jimmy Chin and his ...

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 13: Filmmaker and mountaineer Jimmy Chin attends AOL Build Presents: "MERU"at AOL Studios In New York on August 13, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage ...