Meru 2015
Directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · 89 mins · 2,407 views
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JJoe A 8 月 22, 2026
Ive been really obsessed with watching mountain climbing docs lately. Partially because Alex Honnold climbed that building, but also I’ve been playing a lot of Cairn (which is bonkers good). Anyways, this was solid, I got emotional at the Jose Gonzalez needle drop. Hubris will take people to some crazy ass places.
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Meru is another climbing documentary from Netflix and director of Free Solo. Jimmy Chin directs and returns as a supporting character but this time following an expedition to be the first ever people to scale the gigantic mountain in India called Meru. Cold conditions add a new element, as these storms can rage on for days at a time adding an entirely unique set of obstacles. The camera work was special yet again and I was shocked that they seem to be filming from a different nearby mountain. The interpersonal drama is super interesting, with the reveal of Conrad’s wife as truly shocking. The Renan injury and journey up Meru was maddening at times, but I guess I can’t argue with the results. The aesthetics of desert climbing in Free Solo are more cinematic to me than the snow, but this journey is enthralling and a fascinating look at this insane feat.
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Not as gripping as free solo but definitely worth it. Jimmy Chin is a wizard. Climbing those mountains is hard as f*ck but climbing and capturing everything at the same time is just crazy.
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men will literally climb every fucking tall thing instead of going to therapy
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A towering tribute to the remarkable power of human courage. (And human stupidity.) Like seriously, these guys are unbelievably brave! (But also hella dumb.)
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climbers really form this like personal beef with certain mountains very deep in their soul as if the mountain can reciprocate this beef (sometimes the mountain deadass does but this one let these guys slide)
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not really more than a long youtube but definitely some questionable decision making in the mountains!
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That shot of Conrad crying at the summit is just breathtaking.
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seems like a really cool thing to get into when i have a wife and 2 kids at home
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Madness
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The story is great but as a documentary pretty middle of the road.
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These guys are mentally ill and I’m so happy for them that they found each other
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This might be crazier than free solo upon rewatch.
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almost had a stroke, but he made it
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There’s no explanation for why people do things like that. Probably because once you’re so high up there, everything else feels small.
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As always, a perfect comfort watch.
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I’ve been rock climbing a lot recently, and my sister wanted to watch a documentary, so we decided to watch this one. It turned out to be really great!
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“Fortune favors the brave” maxxing.
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Crazy how different people’s risk tolerance’s are
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incredibly moving and well put together film. cool to see jimmy and conrad climbing together, and renans comeback story was so moving. for how shitty the conditions were the filming was insane. definitely a fav.
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Holy fuck that guy married his dead best friends wife. Holy fuck that guy climbed to 20,000 ft with broken vertebrae, had a stroke, and still made it
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GET DOWN FROM THERE!!!
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Conrad should be the one with the last name Chin
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Beutiful shots. Beautiful stories. Jimmy Chin.
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Pulls together several amazing climbers and their stories. A must watch.
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J’arrive toujours pas à comprendre comment ils peuvent faire des réalisations aussi bonne dans ces conditions
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I feel like I watched a group of Despicable Me–style Minions successfully perform brain surgery. Like holy fuck that was impressive but also wow you should have adult supervision No but seriously this isn’t like Free Solo where the risks are inherent, there’s actually just some seriously poor decision making here with things that don’t even have to do with climbing. And omg the B plot about Conrad and his dead climbing partner’s wife is eyebrow raising
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Wow
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so good. the doc definitely displays the obsessive nature of the 3 climbers and how it led to some poor decision making, but the effort and dedication of the climbers is just so impressive to watch. jimmy is also so cool
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indomitabilis (i want to climb a mountain)
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Eehstraus 8 月 10, 2026
maybe it’s just me but the one thing i wouldn’t want my climbing partner to do after i died is marry my wife….
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Carleton represent x2
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GGi 8 月 10, 2026
Mountaineers will be like “damn I almost died that was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced” and then will be like “ok so round 2?”
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Been after this for years and found it on bilibili – this is the director of free solo doing something himself
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La prochaine fois, faites une thérapie.
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Meru is the culmination of all I’ve done and all I’ve wanted to do is this peak and this climb.
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This is the Natalie Portman star wars meme for 90 minutes
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4 stars because this is really cool and the filming is so cool. whole thing feels like the old patagonia ads. but also conrad marries his dead best friends wife? and renan basically has a stroke on the mountain? i’m still in horror at the trench foot shot towards the beginning of the movie
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Cool
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(Home). How the hell do these people do this stuff?!?
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PPaddy_09 8 月 9, 2026
How I feel on a scramble in the lakes
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the whole movie is one bad decision after another. their poor wives!
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The ascent is an extremely impressive physical feat, particularly for Renan. He and Jimmy seem like nice enough guys, making them easier to spend time with than the vacant Alex Honnold in Free Solo. While I appreciate the efficient pacing within a 90-minute runtime, they could do more to explain, in layman’s terms, what is so technically challenging about certain pitches. There’s nothing comparable to The Boulder Problem in Free Solo. It’s also nowhere near as suspenseful or twisty a story as Touching the Void, still the gold standard for this kind of doc.
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For what reason
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Incredibly inspiring
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RRyan 8 月 8, 2026
i am forever fascinated by stories of human exceptionalism, endurance and perseverance and the climbing genre seems to scratch that itch
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I probably would have turned around when my buddy seemingly had a stroke on the side of the cliff. Great doc but feel like the ending was cut a bit short
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peak
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V2 on my mountain Nah genuinely im so motivated to just go send climbs in nepal now
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JJessicaKnesnik 8 月 7, 2026
Jimmy Chin is GOAT.
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Really nice film about lunatics that scale mountains.
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Andra Day + epic climbing shots = peak
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nothing like a good mountaineering doc to make me never want to get into mountaineering
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oh how i love you jimmy chin
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Having a stroke while climbing at 20,000 feet and then smoking a cig is the most stupid boy shit I’ve ever seen
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woke up the next morning and i was still anxious
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Sometimes I wanna see how they get down, you know? Incredible feat. Stupidity, bravery, and intimacy. My favorite things!
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they LOOK like avalanche survivors. Insane.
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Para nuestros objetivos no hay montañas que los venzan si tienes resilencia y fe en lo que haces.
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wow. excellent example of not giving up.
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Why do these always make me cry
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This is obsession: three experienced mountain climbers are in a tent hanging off a cliff face at 16,000 feet in northern India, and one of them appears to have just had a stroke (he in fact did). Paraphrased, “So, do you think we should go back or push on for the summit.” “Yeah, sure, let’s give it a shot, he’ll probably be OK.” No spoilers here about whether they summited the previously unconquered peak. It doesn’t matter; the ego and…
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This might be the best documentary I’ve ever watched. The stuff these guys went through is actually insane I thought it was over at 40 minutes and I still had an hour left. Idk why but I’ve been so drawn to the mountains recently and stuff like this is so amazing to me. I mean these guys accomplished something so insane it’s hard to describe.
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Renan having stroke symptoms and leading the next pitch took me out fr.
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Solid, (review & rating) probably spoiled by the other fantastic climbing docs
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what do you mean he was in a coma then suddenly scaled meru
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The amount of adversity these guys faced and persevered through is absolutely insane. Conrad loses multiple climbing partners, Jimmy miraculously survives a 2,000 foot fall in a massive avalanche, and Renan has a horrifying head and neck injury that leaves him within inches of death or lifelong paralysis but he somehow manages to make it through and then actively has a stroke during the Meru climb and STILL makes it to summit and back, and they’re the first ones in…
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I love it when documentarians make films about themselves and can’t take a step back to realize how psycho they are.
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insane use of heartbeats by josé gonzález but go off
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Very good climbing movie, watched it again and still hits the same
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yo haciendo de todo menos ir a terapia
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After watching Free Solo, The Alpinist, and The Dawn Wall, these climbers seem like most normal people in the world! Jimmy Chin is so underrated, such an incredible skier, climber, and filmmaker!!
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Great documentary to mentally prepare you to hike up your local hill. I’ve been really obsessed with watching mountain documentaries lately following Nims death. It truly woke up my interest again.
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Still cant over they married my dead friends wife reveal
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High quality movie that was pretty good but was a bit all of the place. I understand why all the details were included because it told a story but idk. I will acknowledge that there were lots of stunning things that happened in the movie (bear death experience after near death experience) but IDK I wasn’t like on the edge of my seat. I think it is because I knew a lot about their stories before having watched Torn and…
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Did Gandalf send them eagles to get off the mountain?
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Choppy and sloppily told in some parts, but pretty fascinating nonetheless. Renan’s story was particularly captivating. Extremely interesting psychologically, fearless yet astonishingly selfish.
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1. Idk what’s wrong with these dudes. Who is literally climbing a mountain where you could easily die and when your equipment breaks you just put tape on it and keep going. Like bro what 💀 2. Also, genuinely wonder what the cost aspect of a climb like that is. Food, travel, gear, etc. It has to be insane.
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renan is the coolest
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I love watching documentaries about mountaineering. It’s so interesting to see– JON KRAKAUER?! Who invited this guy?
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loved it so interesting
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The least appealing hobbies make great documentaries
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yeah dude gotta lead with a stroke sometime
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i love climbing documentaries cause they’re always kinda insane
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JJeremy 7 月 29, 2026
Mfs with a loving wife and kids at home. The guy that was almost crippled 5 months prior left without telling his gf he was doing this climb? Maybe it’s moralizing of me, but I just can’t with extreme athletes sometimes.
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spent almost the whole doc very satisfied and impressed blah blah blah. then however we hit “my best friend died and i left my fiance and married his widow and somehow everyone in bozeman knows im a serial flirter/cheater and am now divorced” and i was suddenly verrrrry disenchanted. jimmy is better vibes, but this is his film so do with that what you will. somehow renan is the most gripping subject here. should he have been on that mountain? no probably not but he survived and that’s the difference i guess.
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Shanti om indeed
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I’d love to be romantic about mountains and whatnot but I still can’t get over the fact that Conrad married his best friends widow Also justice for Renan I’d watch a whole documentary on him EDIT: Just learned Renan is a CC alum and Conrad is now divorced. The universe works in mysterious ways
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that comeback is crazy
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A guy missing half his head, a guy who should have died in an avalanche and a guy who married his dead mate’s wife climb a mountain
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Changed my mind and life forever.
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I love a climbing doc, not as good as free solo but still great They realllllyy skipped right over that his best friend died and then he married his wife…….. homie hopper gurl
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Badass
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guys love dying in the mountains, it’s their #1 fav thing
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Good documentary, and it’s insane what the human mind and body is capable of when you have the determination.
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Better than free solo. Jimmy Chin really him
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Mostly here for Krakauer.
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Jimmy Chin top 5 Asian American
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#wegoupfortheview
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QQüïnn 7 月 20, 2026
Because it’s there
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this winter i went sledding and it took me about 10 minutes to get back up the hill because it was really icy, pretty similar experience
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interesting documentary that shows a lot of dedication to do what these climbers did. Free Solo was a lot better tho
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3 things- 1- i love all things jon krakauer 2- dude had a stroke on the side of a mountain and they just kept going 3- i can’t BELIEVE that woman married conrad (looks like they have since split) okay maybe 4- maybe if you get caught in an avalanche or literally break your back and crack your skull you should just chill for a while
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Rraecb 7 月 15, 2026
girl I’m bored let’s all wear helmets while skiing and climbing
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These guys: 1 Fate: 0
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Can’t imagine having a stroke at the top of a mountain
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CCarl Patterson 8 月 19, 2016
After all they went through, the aborted first climb, a team member bashing his head and eating couscous for days on end they finally made it. Sleep in a tent on a cliff face that is attached by ropes above is just really scary.
- Synopsis
- Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
- Director
- Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
- Studio
- Little Monster Films
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 89 mins
- Canada25 Jan 2015
- USA25 Jan 2015
- Denmark26 Feb 2016
- Germany16 Mar 2016
- Netherlands12 Jan 2018
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