Jimmy Chin is an American professional mountain athlete, photographer, skier, film director and author, born on 12 October 1973. He has been a professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete team for over twenty years, and in 2006 he achieved the first successful American ski descent from the summit of Mount Everest. His documentation of expeditions has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, and he co-directed the climbing documentary Free Solo.
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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.
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