Watch: Trailer For The Harrowing, Sundance-Winning Mountain Climbing Doc ‘Meru’

it seems like there have been a million mountain-climbing documentaries and movies set in the Himalayas, with adrenaline-junkie mountaineers taking on the impossible. But you’ve likely never seen anything as harrowing, holy shit! frightening and ultimately moving as “Meru.” Shot by members of an alpinist crew scaling one of the most dangerous, never-climbed peaks in Northern India, “Meru” places you in the middle of the action, as if you’re on this disturbing, possibly ill-conceived journey.

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The winner of the 2014 Sundance Audience Award for U.S. Documentary, “Meru” is astonishing and has already earned a spot on our Best Documentaries Of The Year so far list. Here’s the official synopsis:

In the high-stakes pursuit of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked...