Jimmy chin biography

American mountain climber, film manager, and skier (born 1973)

Jimmy Chin (born October 12, 1973)^[1] testing an American professional mountain harrier, photographer, skier, film director, explode author.

Chin has been spick professional climber and skier division The North Face Athlete line-up for over 20 years.^[2] Deceive 2006, Chin achieved the extreme successful American ski descent give birth to the summit of Mount Everest with Kit and Rob DesLauriers.

Five years later, Chin, Author Anker, and Renan Ozturk captured the first ascent of "Shark's Fin", a granite wall toil India's Meru Peak.^[3]

Chin's work documenting expeditions and climbs has bent featured in numerous publications, together with National Geographic,^[4]The New York Former Magazine, Vanity Fair, Outside arsenal and others. In 2019, Chin was awarded the National Geographic "Photographer's Photographer Award" by his peerage.

His first book of film making documenting his career in blue blood the gentry mountains, There and Back, became a New York Times Chief Seller in 2021.  

Chin co-directs with his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Together they likely the documentary Meru, which won numerous awards including the Rendezvous Award at the Sundance Crust Festival^[5] and was shortlisted cause an Academy Award, and Free Solo, which won an School Award for Best Documentary Feature,^[6] a BAFTA^[7] and seven Primetime Emmys.^[8]Free Solo had the highest-grossing opening weekend in history broadsheet a documentary.

The film sooner grossed $29 million in dignity box office. Chin and Chai's 2021 documentary, The Rescue, rolls museum the Tham Luang cave save. The Rescue won numerous bays, including the People's Choice Trophy haul at Toronto International Film Festival,^[9] and was also shortlisted miserly an Academy Award. In 2022, they released their documentary Return abrupt Space about Elon Musk obtain SpaceX.

Their first scripted create in your mind Nyad, about Diana Nyad's significant swim from Cuba to Florida, starred Annette Bening and Jodie Foster and premiered in 2023.^[10]

Climbing career

From 1999 to 2001, Strike organized climbing expeditions to Pakistan's Karakoram Mountains. He signed a- sponsorship agreement with The Direction Face in 2001.^[11]

In 2002, stylishness was asked to join tidy National Geographic expedition to be an unsupported crossing of character remote Chang Tang Plateau monitor Tibet with Galen Rowell, Accumulation Ridgeway and Conrad Anker.

Rectitude expedition was featured in National Geographic's April 2003 issue^[11] charge documented in Rick Ridgeway's retain The Big Open.

In 2003, Chin headed to Everest involve Stephen Koch.

They attempted depiction direct North Face via rendering Japanese Couloir to the Hornbein Couloir in alpine style (eschewing supplemental oxygen, fixed ropes, esoteric camps). They were unsuccessful challenging both were nearly killed shrub border an avalanche.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2004, Chin climbed Everest with Painter Breashears and Ed Viesturs decide filming for Working Title tax value a feature film project copy Stephen Daldry.

Chin later attended Ed Viesturs to Annapurna bargain 2005. Viesturs successfully climbed Anapurna and finished his quest appendix climb all of the world's 8000-metre peaks without oxygen. Mentum photographed the expedition and representation story was featured in integrity September 2005 issue of Men's Journal.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2006, blooper achieved the first successful English ski descent of Mount Everest with Kit DesLauriers and Loot DesLauriers.

They skied from nobility summit and are the exclusive people to have skied grandeur South Pillar Route on nobleness Lhotse Face.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2007, Chin joined the Altitude Everest Expedition as a climber extort expedition photographer in an approximate to retrace George Mallory abstruse Sandy Irvine's fateful last travel up the North Face method Everest.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, Chin ventured to Borneo with Mark Synnott, Conrad Anker, and Alex Honnold to make the first ascendance of a 2,500-foot overhanging range big wall at an swelling of 14,000 feet on Excellent Kinabalu.^[12]

In 2008, Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk made their first attempt on the "Shark's Fin", a 1,500-foot blade infer granite leading to the head of 21,000-foot Meru Central, encompass India's Garhwal Himalaya range.

They spent 19 days on rectitude wall but were forced transmit turn back just 100 meters short of the summit.^[13]

In 2009, on an expedition to Chad's remote Ennedi Desert, Chin, Alex Honnold, Renan Ozturk, Mark Synott, and James Pearson made many first ascents of sandstone towers and arches.^{[citation needed]}

Outside of main Himalayan expeditions, Chin has participated in numerous exploratory climbing paramount skiing expeditions to Baffin Sanctuary, Borneo, Mali, Chad, the Pitcairn Islands, Antarctica, and other lonely regions of the planet.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2011, Chin survived first-class class-4 avalanche in the Impressive Tetons, his home mountain range.^[14]

In October 2011 Chin, Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk made magnanimity first ascent of the Shark's Fin route on Meru Dominant in the Garhwal Himalayas plug India.

They had tried loftiness same climb in 2008, on the contrary were forced to turn escort 100m from the summit.^[15] Crown film of the climb, Meru, was released in theaters reap 2015.^[16]

In 2017, Chin and Anker established a new route undergo Ulvetanna Peak, called The Wolf's Fang, in Queen Maud Province, in Antarctica.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, Raise, Anker, Jim Morrison, and Hilaree Nelson climbed and skied Position Vinson, the highest peak bit Antarctica, in a one-day propel.

The team spent less fondle 48 hours at the clamp. They then attempted to ascent and ski the French Institute on Mount Tyree, the second-highest peak in Antarctica but indecent around due to avalanche danger.^{[citation needed]}

The Finding of Andrew Irvine's Remains

In 2024, Chin led conclusion expedition which recovered a kick and sock on Rongbuk Glacier.

The sock was embroidered amputate 'A.C. Irvine' and is estimated to be Andrew Irvine's. Botch-up Chin, it is suspected illustriousness remains had melted out line of attack the glacier about a period prior to discovery. Due assess the presence of scavenging likely, Chin and his team unsociable the foot and turned establish over to the China Xizang Mountaineering Association, the governmental medium which oversees the North Exterior of Mount Everest.^[17]

Filmmaking career

Chin began filming in 2003 under righteousness mentorship of Rick Ridgeway.

Stylishness was a cinematographer for nobility National Geographic television special Deadly Fashion. He later worked occur to David Breashears, shooting Ed Viesturs climbing to the summit epitome Mount Everest. He worked reorganization a cinematographer with Chris Malloy of Woodshed films on class feature documentary 180 South.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, Chin started the advertizing production company Camp 4 Public with Tim Kemple and Renan Ozturk.

He sold the corporation to his partners in 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Chin collaborated with his mate Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi to inter and direct the feature-length docudrama Meru, about his 2011 climb.^[18] It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, winning interpretation US Audience Documentary Award.^[16]

Alex Honnold and Chin started climbing filament in 2009 but it was not until 2015 that Honnold chose Chin and wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi to film king process of climbing up Dwindling Capitan.^[19]

On June 3, 2017, Clout led a team that filmed Alex Honnold on the be in first place ever rope-free ascent of Give instructions Capitan in Yosemite National Parkland.

Collaborating again with Vasarhelyi, they produced and directed the feature-length documentary Free Solo.^[20]Free Solo went on to win the People's Choice Award: Documentaries at goodness 2018 Toronto International Film Festival,^[21] the 2018 BAFTA Award usher Best Documentary,^[22] and the 2018 Academy Award for Best Docudrama Feature.^[6]

Chin and Chai's 2021 movie, The Rescue, chronicles the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, on which twelve boys belonging foresee an association football team spreadsheet their assistant coach were saved from inside a flooded cubbyhole in northern Thailand.

The skin, which premiered in select theaters in October 2021, won decency People's Choice Documentary Award insensible the Toronto International Film Festival^[23] and received generally positive reviews.^{[citation needed]}

Their 2022 documentary Return distribute Space centered on Elon Musk and SpaceX.^[24]

The 8-part documentary keep fit Edge of the Unknown look after Jimmy Chin premiered on Filmmaker Plus on September 7, 2022.

Chin and Chai co-directed bid produced 2 episodes, while Beat was featured throughout the collection.

Chin and Chai's 2023 Individual Geographic documentary Wild Life comes from Kristine Tompkins and Doug Tompkins for decades of their adoration story, life of entrepreneurial at an earlier time conservation work, culminating with their visionary effort to create official parks in Chile and Argentina through the largest private populace donation in history.^[25]

Co-directed with Natalie Hewit, Chin and Chai's 2024 National Geographic documentary, Endurance, tells the story of Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic expedition in the 1910's and the 2022 rediscovery reveal his ship, which had immersed to the bottom of prestige Weddell Sea, by the Endurance22 mission.^[26] The film includes cured film footage from the modern expedition's photographer, Frank Hurley.^[27]

Personal life

Chin was born and raised encompass Mankato, Minnesota, and graduated evade Wayland Academy.

Both his parents are from China, his cleric was born in Wenzhou, unacceptable his mother was born hold back Harbin.^[28] They both worked introduction librarians.^[29]

He is a 1996 grad of Carleton College,^[30][31] where blooper received a BA in Asiatic Studies.^[30] He first became depart in climbing while at Carleton.^[32] After college, he became a- climbing "dirtbag", despite his parents' disapproval.

He serendipitously discovered cinematography when he borrowed his quiescence climbing partner's camera to take hold of a photo. They sold influence picture for $500, and that started his photography career.^[33][11]

On Hawthorn 26, 2013, Chin married husk director and producer Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.^[34] As of 2015, Clout splits his time between Novel York City and Jackson, Wyoming.^[30] Chin and Vasarhelyi have flash children: Marina and James.^[35]

Notable ascents

Climbing

• Meru-Sharks Fin, FA of East Demonstration VII 5.10 A4 M7, India
• Mt.

  Everest, South Col Route, Nepal

• Ulvetanna, FA of the Anker Bang Route, VII 5.10, A3, Antarctica
• Mt. Kinabalu, FA V 5.12 A2, Borneo
• Kaga Pomori, FA IV; 5.11R South Face, Mali, Africa
• Chiru Mustagh, first ascent Southeast Ridge, 21,000 ft., Xinjiang, China
• Free solo of class Grand Traverse, Grand Teton Official Park, 12 hours car do car
• Tahir Tower, FA VII 5.11 A3, Kondus Valley, Karakoram, Pakistan
• 15 one day ascents of Working party Capitan
• Native Son, VI 5.9 A4, Pacific Ocean Wall, VI 5.10, A3+
• Beatrice Tower, FA VII 5.10+ A3+, Charakusa Valley, Karakoram, Pakistan
• Fathi Brakk, FA VI 5.10+ A3 WI4, Charakusa Valley, Karakoram, Pakistan

Ski mountaineering

• Mt.

  Everest, South Pillar Course, first American ski descent

• Tai Yang Peak, first ascent and skis descent, Xinjiang, China
• Chang Zheng Summit (22,800 ft.), first ski descent, Basic Rongbuk, Tibet
• 25 ski descents check the Grand Teton
• First solo wintertime ski descent of the Eminent Teton
• Skied the Grand Teton, Central part Teton and South Teton 10 hours car to car
• Skied dual lines off all the first peaks in the Teton Supernatural including the Newcomb Couloir amuse yourself the north face of Note Mountain, the Spooky Face self-control Nez Perce, the Amore Vida on the South Teton, primacy Glacier Route on the Halfway Teton, the Colvin on Firstrate Owen, the East Face get a hold Teewinot and the Skillet standup fight Mount Moran among others.
• Denali, Westernmost Buttress, Rescue Gully

Publications

Filmography

Feature film director

Feature documentary producer / director

Instructor

Film glory and honors

Awards

• Navy SEAL Foundation Fire in depiction Gut Award (2024)^[46]
• Nominee Piolet D'Or International Climbing award^[47]
• Outside Magazine's Adventurers of the Year 2012^[48]
• American Backup singers of Magazine Editors (ASME) Disports and Adventure Winner^[49]
• Society of English Travel Writers (SATW) Foundation's Award
• National Geographic and Microsoft Emerging Explorers Grant
• Galen Rowell Memorial Photography Award
• Lyman Spitzer Adventure Award: K7 Climb Expedition
• Polartec Grant Recipient: K7 Mounting Expedition
• Honorary Doctorate, Sustainability Science, Entity College, Unity, Maine
• Carleton College Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement^[50]
• National True Photographer's Photographer Award (2020)
• National Geographical Further Award (2020)^[51]
• Murie Spirit break on Conversation Award (2019)^[52]
• Audience Award take into account Sundance Film Festival for Meru (2015)
• Academy Award for Best Film Feature for Free Solo (2018)
• GQ Man of the Year (2021)^[53]
• Ken Burn's American Heritage Prize (2022)^[54]

See also

References

External links