Jimmy Chin
Director
Biography
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.
Filmography
Free Solo
as Self 2018
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
as Himself 2021
Meru
as Himself 2015
Torn
as Self 2021
Wild Life
as Self 2023
Reel Rock 13
2018
Fine Lines
as Self 2019
Reel Rock 7
as Self 2012
K2: The Impossible Descent
as Himself 2020
La Liste : Everything or Nothing
2021
Ueli Steck - Speed, Der schnellste Mann am Berg
as Self 2011
Queen Maud Land
2018