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The name Meru likely originated from the Sanskrit word for "peak". The mountain was formerly the site of the world's highest BASE jump from a location on the surface of the Earth by Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan, from a height of 6,604 metres (21,667 ft), in June 2006, a record which has since been surpassed by Valery Rozov 's 2013 jump from ...
In 2004, while working as a rigger on a film team in Indian Creek, Öztürk impulsively decided to free solo North Sixshooter Peak. The crew filmed his ascent and included it in the climbing film, Return 2 Sender. [3] His first attempt at the Shark's Fin route of Meru Peak took place in 2008 with Anker and Chin. They spent 19 days on the climb ...
After attempting but failing to summit Meru in 2008, Anker, Chin, and Ozturk return to the mountain to conquer its peak – a 4,000 foot wall known as the "Shark's Fin". As they climb, the men also document their ascent. "You know, I'm always a climber first," said Chin on balancing climbing with filmmaking.
His film of the climb, Meru, was released in theaters in 2015. [16] In 2017, Chin and Anker established a new route on Ulvetanna Peak, called The Wolf's Fang, in Queen Maud Land, in Antarctica. [citation needed] In 2020, Chin, Anker, Jim Morrison, and Hilaree Nelson climbed and skied Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica, in a one-day ...
Standing on the China Tibet–Nepal Province No. 1 border, the mountain is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya 20 kilometers west of Mount Everest. Its standard northwest ridge route features generally moderate slopes, and it is close to Nangpa La , a glaciated pass that serves as the main trading ...
At university he became an avid mountaineer, joining the North London Mountaineering Club and climbing Mount Kenya along with a 1988 climb of Shani Peak in the Karakoram range. He also climbed routes in the Alps, routes in Zimbabwe and an attempt at Meru Peak. [1] In 1992 MacNae made the second ever ascent of Chomochior in the Kishtwar Himalaya.
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Mount Kenya is located in the former Eastern and Central provinces of Kenya; its peak is now the intersection of Meru, Embu, Kirinyaga, Nyeri and Tharaka Nithi counties, about 16.5 kilometres (10.3 miles) south of the equator, around 150 km (90 mi) north-northeast of the capital Nairobi.