Ascent - a near impossible climb captured live in the documentary Meru

The documentary Meru, in limited distribution, is another one of the endlessly fascinating reports on the guys who live to climb - this one particularly notable for the incredibly dangerous and life-threatening challenges this group of 3 climbers faced on their two attempts to be the first to scale the till-now unclimbable Himalayan peak of the title (also known as Shark's Fin, perhaps a better title). What separates this from many others is that the climb is captured on video almost entirely during the process, by one of the climbers (Renan Azturk) as cinematographer - there's no "re-creation" of the climb, though there are post-climb on-camera interviews with the 3 climbers, their souses/girlfriends/siblings, and Gary Krakouer (sp?) author of Into Thin Air, who gives good context and perspective. Won't give too much away here, but the center of the film is a serious injury Renan suffered not climbing but skiing and the great risk he and the team took allowing him - recovering from fractured skull - to attempt the near-impossible ascent. The live footage of the three in their cliff-hanging bivouac at night and in storms and, during the day, their meticulous ascent up sheer ice at what seem to be impossible angles, is astonishing - without question the end of this film could have been the death of the team in sudden catastrophe. We have a personal interest in this film, btw, as Renan grew up in town and was one of our daughter's friends and in fact I can claim (accurately) to have hiked (though not "climbed") in the Whites with Renan - perhaps it "all began" when he ascended the peaks of Lafayette and Lincoln, back in the day?