Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
01-25-2015
1h 29m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Directors:
Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Production:
Little Monster Films
Revenue:
$2,334,228
Key Crew
Director of Photography:
Jimmy Chin
Editor:
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cinematography:
Renan Öztürk
Producer:
Jimmy Chin
Producer:
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Locations and Languages
Country:
US; IN
Filming:
IN; US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Conrad Anker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Conrad Anker (born 1962) is an American rock climber, mountaineer, and author famous for his challenging ascents in the high Himalaya and Antarctica. He is a member of The North Face climbing team and also works closely with Timex Expedition as brand ambassador. In 1999 he was a key member of the search team which located the remains of legendary British climber George Mallory on Mount Everest. Anker is the climber who spotted Mallory's body. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Conrad Anker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jimmy Chin (born October 12, 1973) is an American professional climber, mountaineer, skier, director and photographer. He has organized and led numerous climbing, ski-mountaineering and exploratory expeditions to China, Pakistan, Nepal, Tanzania, Chad, Mali, South Africa, Borneo, India and Argentina. His achievements include climbing and skiing Mount Everest from the summit, making first ascents of big walls and alpine towers in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan and the Garwhal Himalayas of Northern India, crossing the Chang Tang Plateau in north-western Tibet on foot.
Chin's work documenting expeditions and climbs has been featured in numerous publications, including National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Outside magazine and others. In 2019, Chin was awarded the National Geographic "Photographer's Photographer Award" by his peers. His first book of photography documenting his career in the mountains, There and Back, became a New York Times Best Seller in 2021. Chin co-directs with his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Together they directed the documentary Meru, which won numerous awards including the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for an Academy Award, and Free Solo, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a BAFTA and seven Primetime Emmys. Free Solo had the highest-grossing opening weekend in history for a documentary.
Jeremy Jones is a professional snowboarder, known for big mountain freeriding. Currently, he works primarily to create and improve his line of snowboards and films movies that record his adventures climbing and snowboarding mountains around the world.
