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 ...

RIDGWAY, Colo. — Renan Ozturk has a stunning mountainous area for a backyard. When he's home, he likes to go for hikes with his dog Baloo in Uncompaghre National Forest in southwest Colorado. He's a ...

Professional rock climber Emily Harrington is the first woman to free climb Golden Gate on Yosemite’s El Capitan in under 24 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virginia raised filmmaker James Mottern, is set to screen his new documentary at Richmond's Byrd Theatre this coming Monday.