If you don’t know any better, Jimmy Chin’s curriculum vitae sounds like it came straight from the lips of a snake-oil salesman on the American frontier. Or as if it were the log line for … well, a Jimmy Chin film.
The 48-year-old director of Free Solo and Meru spent his childhood and college years in Minnesota, lived out of his Subaru after graduating, and cut his teeth climbing the American West’s most challenging mountains.
