MIT Lecture Series Committee

October 6, 2015

Rated R
87 minutes

view trailer

format: bluray

Meru (2015)

This special event is sponsored by the MIT Outing Club and hosted by LSC! Tickets are $5 with MIT ID, or $10 general admission. Online tickets can be purchased through the MITOC page.

In the high-stakes game of big-wall climbing, the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting at the headwaters of the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the Shark’s Fin has seen more failed attempts by elite climbing teams over the past 30 years than any other ascent in the Himalayas.

In October 2008, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk arrived in India to tackle Meru. What was meant to be a seven-day trip with the equivalent amount of food became a 20-day odyssey in sub-zero temperatures, thanks to the setback of a massive storm that showered the mountain with at least 10 feet of snow. Like everyone before them, their journey was not a successful one. But they had reached further than anyone else, beaten back just 100 meters below the elusive summit. [web.mit.edu]