His parents expected him to follow a more conventional path. “They weren’t even in my lexicon when I spoke of careers.” “But I didn’t see a career as a professional climber or a photographer or a filmmaker,” he says. ![]() There, he got sucked into the vortex of the West. His first climbing experience brought him to Joshua Tree with some college buddies. Mary’s and graduating from Carleton College, Chin became a photographer and a filmmaker, and, maybe more existentially, a climber and an explorer. Partners in film (and life): Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi during the Free Solo film shoot.Īfter attending Shattuck–St. ![]() “What would be more exciting? What would be more interesting? What would be a little closer to the edge?” “I always had that sense growing up, as I moved through high school and then college, that I wanted to live life intensely,” he says. “And I remember The Hobbit was pretty influential from a very young age-I wanted to go on an adventure.” Chin knew he was searching for his dragon and his quest. ![]() “My parents were librarians, so they were bringing me books all the time,” he says when I reach him by phone from his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Sign up to Daily Edit to get unlimited access.īefore Jimmy Chin became the first American to ski from the summit of Mount Everest, before he filmed the first ascent of the Shark’s Fin in the Garwhal Himalaya for his documentary Meru, and before he hung off a cliff to film Alex Honnold’s rope-free ascent of El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, for his latest doc, this fall’s Free Solo-before he collected all that glory, Jimmy Chin was a little kid in Mankato, Minnesota, reading The Hobbit.
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