Jimmy Chin is an Asian American elite athlete, known for his mountaineering prowess, and accomplishments throughout the world. In 2006 he achieved the first successful American ski descent from the ...

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's mountaineering saga won Sundance's Audience Award in the documentary section. By Neil Young A high-tech, high-octane, high-fiving addition to the venerable ...

Mount Everest is nothing compared to the Shark’s Fin. While Everest is the tallest mountain in the world (29,029 feet), Meru, also in the Himalayas, is the most difficult to climb. No one has ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Jimmy Chin is a climber, a National Geographic photographer, a filmmaker, and, as described by Vincent J. Musi in his introduction at the National Geographic Photography Seminar in January, a “total ...

In 2008, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted to summit Meru, a 21,000-foot mountain in the Garhwal Himalayas in northern India. Some of the greatest climbers in the world have tried ...