The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five ...

A photograph of Conrad Anker on the Meru expedition, courtesy of filmmaker and climber Jimmy Chin You know about Mount Everest, but have you heard of Meru? The central peak of the Himalayan mountain, ...

There’s steady, scary thrill in the final third of Meru, the latest attempt to conquer the climb-and-tweak-the-nose-of-God mountaineering documentary, a genre that has yet to reach its apex. The ...

The Giripremi mountaineering club from Pune, India is leading an expedition to the unclimbed east ridge of Meru South in the Garhwal Himalaya. It follows their historic 2023 ascent of Meru's west face ...

In Hindu mythology, a golden-coloured five-peaked mountain is the centre of the universe and the axis of the world. This is Mount Meru or Sumeru. In our epics, it has been referred to as the abode of ...