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Would you support your friend if he wanted to risk his life conquering a dream? In the Sundance award-winning documentary film “Meru”, this dream involves climbing a 20,702 foot mountain carrying 200 ...

Meru is a 21,000-foot mountain in northern India. Some of the greatest climbers in the world have tried and failed to reach its peak — a sheer... For 3 Climbers, Summiting Meru Was An 'Irresistible' ...

Conrad Anker is a climber's climber, and a living legend – at home on a faraway alpine wall or the sparkling ice of Hyalite Canyon, near his hometown of Bozeman, Montana. Over decades, his epic ...

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 ...

Even within the extreme sport of alpine climbing — a sport many of us would never even think of attempting — there are challenges that stand out. The Shark’s Fin at Meru Peak is one of those. Located ...

When you get a climber’s-eye view of the Shark’s Fin jutting skyward at the very top of the 21,000-foot Meru Peak in the Himalayas, you feel a rock sinking in your stomach, even though you’re ...

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Before 2011, no one had ever climbed to the summit of the “shark’s fin,” a blade-like outcropping of ice-and-snow-covered rock rising to a height of 21,000 feet from the back of Mount Meru in the ...

Mountain climbers, the real-deal ones, the ones who fearlessly risk life and limb to conquer peaks, arouse a natural human curiosity about how they can be so undaunted. Besides being mortal and being ...

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