Music Box Films will release the Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary Meru in New York and Los Angeles on Aug. 14. The film tells of alpinists Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk who, in 2008, arrived in India to tackle the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, which sits 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River.
Their planned seven-day trip devolved into a 20-day odyssey and ultimately ended within 100 meters of the summit. Three years later the trio returned to once again attempt to reach the peak, this new documentary tells that story.
Watch the trailer below.
