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 ...

“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 ...

When asked why they are compelled to climb dangerous mountains such as Mt. Everest, neither Conrad Anker nor Jimmy Chin mentions fame or glory. They talk about the passion and friendship of the sport.

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 ...

(eTN) – President Kikwete opened the Mt. (eTN) – President Kikwete opened the Mt. Meru Hotel last weekend during a grand ceremony witnessed by owners, management, staff, the invited tourism fraternity ...

Mount Everest is nothing compared to the Shark’s Fin. While Everest is the tallest mountain in the world (29,029 feet), Meru, also in the Himalayas, is the most difficult to climb. No one has ...

In the 20,700-foot climb to reach the summit of Mount Meru in the Himalayas, considered one of the hardest climbs in the world, Jimmy Chin saw a canvas for a documentary. Chin, who had climbed Mt.

Last week, I attended a lunch at New York’s 21 Club celebrating the hit mountaineering documentary, “Meru.” The film’s producer/director E. Chai Vasarhelyi and her husband climber/cameraman Jimmy Chin ...

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 ...

City based Giripremi, in association with Nehru Institute of Mountaineering based in Uttarkashi, has become the first Indian group to summit Mt Meru. The expedition, led by veteran mountaineer, Umesh ...