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    Jimmy Chin’s Photos From the Edge

    Dec 31, 2021 4 minutes
    Photographs by JIMMY CHIN
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    Kathleen Rellihan

    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,

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