Jimmy Chin’s Photos From the Edge
FROM SKIING DOWN EVEREST to climbing up Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru in the Himalaya, Jimmy Chin is a real-life superhero tackling feats no one has done before. But surprisingly, this extreme mountain sports photographer, Oscar-winning film director and world-class mountaineer doesn’t consider scaling one of the world’s tallest granite walls the greatest risk he ever took. Rather, it was a choice in his early 20s—“committing to the dream I had, moving to Yosemite and living in a car,” Chin tells Newsweek about his decision to follow this dream of climbing mountains.
“As my friend and mentor, Jon
