Jimmy Chin is a professional mountain athlete, National Geographic photographer, Academy Award–winning film director, and New York Times best-selling author. His dual career as a world-class adventure athlete and artist is without precedent—he’s equally respected for groundbreaking climbing and skiing achievements in the mountains as he is for his stunning photography and filmmaking. Chin has been a professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete Team for over twenty years. His travels have taken him to all seven continents, and he has led cut- ting-edge expeditions around the world. In 2006, he achieved the first successful American ski descent from the summit of Mount Everest with Kit and Rob DesLauriers. Five years later, Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk achieved the coveted first ascent of the notorious Shark’s Fin, a granite wall on India’s Meru Central. As a photographer, Chin’s work has been featured in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Outside, and others. His first book of photography, There and Back, became a New York Times bestseller in 2021. Chin co-directs films with his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, including Meru, which won numerous awards including the Audience Award at Sundance; Free Solo, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; and The Rescue, which won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and was short-listed for an Academy Award. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming, with his wife, their daughter, Marina, and son, James.