Jimmy Chin October 13, 2010

Jimmy Chin grew up in southern Minnesota, wondering what life would be like if the landscape weren't so flat. A summer road trip with his parents to Glacier National Park, when he was ten years old, confirmed for him that someday he would live a life in the mountains. After finishing college, Jimmy set out for a short climbing and skiing road trip. Many years, cars and expeditions later, he's still traveling full-time. These days, however, his road trips take him a bit farther from home. As an athlete for The North Face, as well as one of the most versatile and sought after expedition photographers in the business, Jimmy has been busy climbing, skiing, exploring and photographing expeditions in the remote corners of the planet. In the past decade, Jimmy has filmed and photographed some of the best adventurers, climbers and skiers in the world, documenting everything from first ascents of unclimbed towers in the Karakoram to ski descents of high peaks in the Himalayas.