Meru

1h 30min | Documentary, Sport | 2015
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Additional Editor: William Lehman

After suffering dramatic set backs in their lives, three close friends who are among the world’s best professional climbers battle their complicated pasts, inner demons and nature’s harshest elements in an attempt to confront the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas, one that has never been scaled to completion.

Winner of the 2015 Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Documentary.

Climbing the Shark’s Fin

 

7min | Documentary, Short, Sport | 2015
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Editor: William Lehman

This short documentary for NYT Op-Docs chronicles the ordeal of three mountain climbers attempting one of the most elusive first ascents in the Himalayas.