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Jimmy Chin

Jimmy Chin (born October 12, 1973) is an American professional climber, mountaineer, skier, director and photographer. He has organized and led numerous climbing, ski-mountaineering and exploratory expeditions to China, Pakistan, Nepal, Tanzania, Chad, Mali, South Africa, Borneo, India and Argentina. His achievements include climbing and skiing Mount Everest from the summit, making first ascents of big walls and alpine towers in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan and the Garwhal Himalayas of Northern India, crossing the Chang Tang Plateau in north-western Tibet on foot. Chin's work documenting expeditions and climbs has been featured in numerous publications, including National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Outside magazine and others. In 2019, Chin was awarded the National Geographic "Photographer's Photographer Award" by his peers. His first book of photography documenting his career in the mountains, There and Back, became a New York Times Best Seller in 2021. Chin co-directs with his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Together they directed the documentary Meru, which won numerous awards including the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for an Academy Award, and Free Solo, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a BAFTA and seven Primetime Emmys. Free Solo had the highest-grossing opening weekend in history for a documentary.


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Born:
Oct 12, 1973 In Mankato, Minnesota, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
17
First Appeared:
In the series The Oscars 1953-03-19
Latest Project:
Movie Wild Life 2023-04-14
Known For
Poster of Wild Life
Poster of La Liste : Everything or Nothing
Poster of K2: The Impossible Descent
Poster of Ueli Steck - Speed, Der schnellste Mann am Berg
Filmography
Movie Wild Life Self 2023-04-14
Series Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin Self 2022-09-05
Movie La Liste : Everything or Nothing 2021-10-31
Movie 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible Himself 2021-11-12
Movie Torn Self 2021-12-03
Movie K2: The Impossible Descent 2020-07-22
Movie Fine Lines Self 2019-12-06
Movie Free Solo Self 2018-09-28
Movie Reel Rock 13 2018-11-01
Movie Queen Maud Land 2018-11-01
Movie Meru Himself 2015-01-25
Movie The Shark's Fin 2012-07-01
Movie Reel Rock 7 Self 2012-09-13
Movie Ueli Steck - Speed, Der schnellste Mann am Berg Self 2011-08-26
Series Reel Rock Unknown 2010-01-01
Series LIVE with Kelly and Mark Self - Guest 1988-09-05
Series The Oscars Self 1953-03-19