Because Vasarhelyi and Chin’s new documentary Free Solo is in select theaters now. Rather than documenting another one of his own expeditions, Chin and Vasarhelyi spent a few years following Alex ...

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's mountaineering saga won Sundance's Audience Award in the documentary section. By Neil Young A high-tech, high-octane, high-fiving addition to the venerable ...

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 ...

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s documentary “Meru” shocked Sundance audiences with its first-person account of three mountain climbers who set out to conquer the most treacherous and ...

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 tried ...

Jimmy Chin is a climber, a National Geographic photographer, a filmmaker, and, as described by Vincent J. Musi in his introduction at the National Geographic Photography Seminar in January, a “total ...

Two harrowing attempts at an 'impossible climb' in the Himalayas bookend this engrossing extreme-sports docu. The “Shark’s Fin” on Mount Meru in northern India is a Holy Grail for big wall climbers, ...