Meru, a 2015 documentary film co-directed by Jimmy Chin and his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, thrills. The awe-inspiring film examines the 2011 first ascent of a new route up a 4,000-foot wall ...

The new mountain-climbing documentary Meru is not only an irresistible adrenaline rush of a movie (opening Friday at Bay Area theatres), but for serious film buffs a very tangible lesson in the ...

Climber Jim Morrison and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discussed Morrison's history-making descent of Everest's north side on skis.