The must-see movies about Mount Everest are often either inspiring or terrifying documentaries, from Dying for Everest to ...

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 ...

There's a scary moment midway through the new rock climbing documentary "Girl Climber" when the film's subject, Emily Harrington, has to leave the theater during viewings. During a nighttime climb up ...