Meru (film)

Meru
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
  • Jimmy Chin
  • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Produced by
  • Jimmy Chin
  • Shannon Ethridge
  • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cinematography
  • Jimmy Chin
  • Renan Ozturk
Edited byBob Eisenhardt
Music byJ. Ralph
Production
company
Little Monster Films
Distributed byMusic Box Films
Release dates
Running time
87 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.3 million

Meru is a 2015 documentary film chronicling the 2011 first ascent of a new climbing route up the prow of the dramatic Shark's Fin on the northeast side of Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas. The route required a complex range of alpine climbing, big wall climbing, and aid climbing techniques, and had rebuffed many famous climbers, including the team of Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk who are featured in the film. It was co-directed by the husband and wife team of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, and won the 'U.S. Audience Documentary Award' at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.[1]

  1. ^ "A Filmmaker's Epic Journey to the Peak of Meru". National Geographic. February 25, 2015. Archived from the original on March 2, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.