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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

[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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...