Risk, Fear, and the Art of Chill with Jimmy Chin

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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It's a very rare occurrence when my man Jimmy Chin is in one place for any length of time. But in these pandemic times, he finds himself adventuring in his backyard in Jackson, WY and staying close to home with his family. Of course I had to seize the opportunity to finally sit down and check-in on his whirlwind career.

Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer and mountain sports athlete known for his ability to capture extraordinary imagery and stories while climbing and skiing in extremely high-risk environments and expeditions. A longtime member of The North Face Athlete Team, he has led dozens of exploratory expeditions and completed first ascents around the globe, working with the best adventure athletes in the world. In 2006, he became one of the only people to ski off the summit of Mount Everest.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground. From humble beginnings as a dirtbag photographer, Jimmy's first big break, mentorship, balancing family and life on the road, to international recognition for his films Oscar Shortlisted Documentary 'Meru' and 7x Emmy Award Winning and Academy Award for Best Documentary 'Free Solo', and the lessons along the way.

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0:00.0	y'all are in for a treat today been working with my dear friend to get him on the show for some time now and today is the day our guest jimmy chin that's right he's an academy award-winning filmmaker you surely saw his film free solo which which chronicled Altonald, free solo, one of the gnarliest routes in all climbing.
0:28.3	You also probably know him as a National Geographic photographer.
0:31.7	He's an overall mountain sports dude, an athlete known for his ability to capture these images and stories while climbing and skiing
0:39.1	in the highest risks environments in the world. His film Meru in 2015 won the coveted audience
0:48.0	award at the Sundance Film Festival. It was shortlisted for an Oscar for Best Docco, but then
0:54.1	he came back with Free Solo to win
0:56.7	a BAFTA, seven Emmys, and, of course, the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature last
1:03.4	year in 2019. His photos, of course, have appeared everywhere. The covers of National Geographic,
1:08.1	The New York Times Magazine. He's done a ton of commercial
1:11.1	work. We've been in the same universe for, I would say, probably 15 years. Many of you,
1:18.2	you may or may not know, you probably remember, my teeth as an action sports photographer
1:22.3	working in that field for large corporate clients, but over a really long period of time.
1:28.6	And Jenny and I had the good chance or the good opportunity, rather, crossing paths a lot.
1:32.2	We have a lot of mutual friends.
1:33.7	So with this conversation, there's both this a kinship and a camaraderie, an awareness of what
1:39.7	it takes to make creative stuff in those environments.
1:43.3	But we come at it from very different worlds.
1:45.7	And Jimmy, again, has achieved insane success.
1:49.8	We talk about so many things that are going to be of value,
1:52.2	regardless if you're a climber and outdoor sports action figure,
1:55.8	action figure, not to be confused with a plastic toy.
1:59.6	Although, if there was one, Jimmy would be that. You know,
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