The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five ...

A photograph of Conrad Anker on the Meru expedition, courtesy of filmmaker and climber Jimmy Chin You know about Mount Everest, but have you heard of Meru? The central peak of the Himalayan mountain, ...

There’s steady, scary thrill in the final third of Meru, the latest attempt to conquer the climb-and-tweak-the-nose-of-God mountaineering documentary, a genre that has yet to reach its apex. The ...

The Giripremi mountaineering club from Pune, India is leading an expedition to the unclimbed east ridge of Meru South in the Garhwal Himalaya. It follows their historic 2023 ascent of Meru's west face ...

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 ...

There’s a new artist in town — and she’s painting without a brush. Only nine months old, elephant calf Meru is officially Tucson’s newest Van Gogh, creating abstract paintings with her adorable little ...

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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 ...

As the weather gets hotter and students’ thoughts drift to the summer, a UA alumna is already preparing to climb snow-capped peaks in Africa. Former engineering student Toni Harris is one of 14 women ...

When you get a climber’s-eye view of the Shark’s Fin jutting skyward at the very top of the 21,000-foot Meru Peak in the Himalayas, you feel a rock sinking in your stomach, even though you’re ...