In 1976, two Englishmen stood at the base of Changabang (6,864 m) — a behemoth of the Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand, though still not quite as high as the 8,000 m giants in Nepal and Pakistan. The ...

it seems like there have been a million mountain-climbing documentaries and movies set in the Himalayas, with adrenaline-junkie mountaineers taking on the impossible. But you’ve likely never seen ...

Elite mountain climber Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi collaborated on a movie, “Meru” (Music Box, August 14) unlike any you’ve ever seen before. The difference between this survival doc and ...

Meru Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Rated R. Opens Friday. Chin and co-director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (who’s also Chin’s wife) lose a bit of momentum during this stretch, ...