Jimmy Chin is an Asian American elite athlete, known for his mountaineering prowess, and accomplishments throughout the world. In 2006 he achieved the first successful American ski descent from the ...

A new documentary charts the attempts of a trio of American climbers to be the first to scale Meru Peak, a 21,000-foot Himalayan peak. Critic... Climbing Documentary 'Meru' Is A Hair-Raising 'Peak ...

“Meru” is a mountain in the Himalayas, a 20,000-foot peak topped by a 1,500-foot vertical rock wall called the Shark’s Fin -- a summit that, despite multiple attempts, had never been climbed. In 2008, ...

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 ...