4PM: DOCUMENTARY - In the high-stakes pursuit of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked obstacles make it both a nightmare and an irresistible calling for some of the world's toughest climbers. In MERU (2015, 87 min), three men struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to chal-lenge one of the toughest mountain routes in the world.
The Oscar-nominated film has enough gut-wrenching action sequences and stunningly beautiful vistas to thrill theater-seat adventurers and hardcore ex-treme-sports addicts alike.
