The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five ...

Yes, that’s a pretty big plume of smoke you see coming out of Tanzania’s Mount Meru volcano—but contrary to appearances and some reports, it’s not erupting. Something else is happening up there.

Harrowing and ultimately moving, “Meru” charts the efforts of three of the world’s best mountain climbers to conquer an “impossible” Himalayan peak that has never been successfully scaled before.

Mount Everest is nothing compared to the Shark’s Fin. While Everest is the tallest mountain in the world (29,029 feet), Meru, also in the Himalayas, is the most difficult to climb. No one has ...

Last night Meru, the new film sharing the story of Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk’s quest for one of alpinism’s great prizes, won the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at Sundance Film ...

[Jon] The Shark's Fin, the Meru Central. This climb has seen more attempts and more failures than any route in the Himalaya. way up high, you know, 20,000 feet. This is the test of the master climber.

How far would you go to get a good cup of coffee? Would you drive down the street? Would you go across town? How about jetting off to Tanzania? The organizers of the Mt. Meru Coffee Project believe it ...

NEW YORK — For most people, climbing an “unconquerable” mountain in the Himalayas would be enough. Not Jimmy Chin, one of the intrepid trio whose attempts to reach the summit of Shark’s Fin on Mount ...

“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 ...

Watch a clip from the new documentary “Meru,” showing a glimpse of the high-stakes journey of some of the world’s most experienced climbers up India's Mount Meru. Photo: Music Box Films It ranks among ...