Synopsis
Believe in the impossible
Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
2015 Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
Όρος Μερού, Meru: odisea en el Himalaya, מרו - לכבוש את הפסגה, MERU/メルー, 메루, 한계를 향한 열정, Meru: O Centro do Universo, Меру, İmkansız Tırmanış, 攀登梅鲁峰, 攀登梅魯峰
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A towering tribute to the remarkable power of human courage.
(And human stupidity.)
Like seriously, these guys are unbelievably brave!
(But also hella dumb.)
men will literally climb every fucking tall thing instead of going to therapy
Good documentary.
It's always interesting to know the background of mountain climbers.
Especially, when you have a good strong team like this group.
Thank goodness I'm all warm under my blankies.
⛰
Holy hell are they stupid.
And also, portaledge is a thing apparently. It's a deployable tent suspended off a vertical cliff until an avalanche carries it away; then it's called a bodybag.
Not as gripping as free solo but definitely worth it. Jimmy Chin is a wizard. Climbing those mountains is hard as f*ck but climbing and capturing everything at the same time is just crazy.
51/100
A.V. Club review. Spent half the film admiring these guys and the other half thinking they should be brought up on charges of reckless stupidity.
“Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once, but twice.”
I put Meru on my watchlist as soon as I saw Free Solo and tonight I saw it was on Netflix and impulsively put it on despite the fact that I definitely should’ve gone to sleep a while ago and I can say without a doubt that I don’t regret the decision. This film had all of the same appeal that Free Solo did, the beautiful and well done, tense and thrilling climbing sequences, the great deep dives into the lives of the people who the film focuses on, Jimmy Chin’s filmmaking talents shined through in both of these movies.
Meru and Free Solo make me really…
TIL that climbers sleep in a tent called a portaledge, which hangs on the face of a cliff thousands of feet above ground.
Yes, they sleep in a tent hanging up on a fucking mountain.
More entertaining than Everest. Worth a watch.