Music Box Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of Meru, an extraordinary, critically acclaimed chronicle of three climbers' attempt to ascend Mount Meru, the most dangerous peak in the Himalayas. The film arrives on Blu-ray on November 17th.
A critical and commercial success with over $2 million in domestic box offices grosses, the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner follows three world-renowned climbers, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk, as they navigate nature's harshest elements and their own inner demons in their attempt to be the first to ascend Mount Meru, the most complicated and hazardous mountain in the Himalayas. Co-directed by Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the film marries the drama of the climb with the personal narrative of the athletes who take on such a daunting challenge.
In 2008, Anker, Chin and Ozturk attempted to scale Meru, the daunting 21,850-foot Himalayan mountain topped by a sheer vertical peak known as the Shark's Fin. Their planned seven-day trip quickly devolved into a 20-day odyssey in sub-zero temperatures with depleting food rations. Within 100 meters of the elusive summit, their journey - like all previous attempts - fell short of the goal. Heartbroken and defeated, the trio returned to their everyday lives, where the siren song of Meru continued to beckon. By September 2011, Anker had convinced his team to reunite and undertake the Shark's Fin once more, under even more extraordinary circumstances. Meru tells the epic story of that remarkable journey.
Special features include:
Audio Commentaries by Conrad Anker andFilmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Sundance Film Festival Interview with the Filmmakers
Director Q&As from Chicago Premiere and Full Frame Festival