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Meru

It's that story that tells us about the great challenges we are living through the great mountain climbing around the world. It may be the Shark's Fin Award on Mount Meru is the final prize, where the film revolves around three competing climbers struggling to find success through that sport. It is a series of challenges that turn into mania and loss as they try to climb the mountain.
Keywords:  #Conrad Anker #Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi #Grace Chin #Jimmy Chin #Jimmy Chin #Meru
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Arizona Republic
September 03, 2015
What drives these men? "Because it's there" merely scratches the surface. "Meru" may not answer the question completely - likely nothing can - but it is a thrilling, harrowing attempt.
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Empire Magazine
February 11, 2016
As a spectacle, it offers a vertiginous, first person view of events, but it's equally immersive as candid psycho-drama of survival.
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Epoch Times
June 06, 2016
John Long, a brilliant climbing-literature author of Anker's generation, explains the addiction of extreme alpinism as going to a place where you know you're already dead.
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Globe and Mail
September 04, 2015
A triumph of editing and narrative beyond "Are you kidding me?" visuals, Meru is a climbing story with context; biographies are woven in incrementally.
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Guardian
February 11, 2016
Likely to appeal to the extreme sports market and leave the rest of us stranded.
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Boston Globe
August 27, 2015
Filmed with such grandeur and intimacy that sometimes attempting to figure out how they made the incredible shots almost spoils them.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
February 12, 2016
A film about a climb more daredevilish than Philippe Petit's tightrope walk. Brilliantly filmed by the climbers who are as good at cinema as in climbing up the face of a mountain.
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Toronto Star
September 03, 2015
Chin and Ozturk capture both the astonishing views from the top of the world and soul-searching moments inside a cramped tent dangling from the side of the mountain like a used tea bag.
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Chicago Sun-Times
September 02, 2015
This is one of the most outstanding documentaries of the year.
The Film Stage
February 21, 2016
Part awe-inspiring nature documentary, part personal reflective journey, Meru gives equal weight to both of these sides of the coin.
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Detroit News
September 11, 2015
Are these guys nuts? Are their egos needy of self-affirmation? Or is there some higher purpose in such inexplicable endeavors? Do some people just have a genetic need to live on the edge?
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