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Jimmy Chin is a professional climber, mountaineer, skier, director and photographer. He was born and raised in Mankato, Minnesota. Jimmy signed with (The North Face ) in 2001 and is a 14 year veteran of (The North Face Athlete Team ). He has organized and led numerous climbing, ski-mountaineering and exploratory expeditions to China, Pakistan, Nepal, Tanzania, Chad, Mali, South Africa, Tibet, Borneo, India and Argentina. His achievements include climbing and skiing Mount Everest from the summit, making first ascents of big walls and alpine towers in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan and the Garwhal Himalayas of Northern India, crossing the Chang Tang Plateau in north-western Tibet on foot and attempting the direct North face of Mount Everest, alpine style. Jimmy has been featured, both in front of and behind the camera, in numerous publications, including ''National Geographic'', ''Outside'' and ''Men’s Journal'', and has been voted as one of the world’s most eligible bachelors by ''People'' magazine. An alumnus of Carleton College, he received a BA in Asian Studies. ==Expedition career== Jimmy organized several climbing expeditions to Pakistan's Karakoram Mountains early in his career. In 2002, (Jimmy headed to Everest ) with Stephen Koch. They attempted the direct North Face via the Japanese Coulior to the Hornbein Couloir in alpine style, eschewing supplemental oxygen, fixed ropes and camps. They were unsuccessful and both were nearly killed in an avalanche. In 2003, Jimmy was asked to join a National Geographic expedition to make an unsupported crossing of the remote Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet with Galen Rowell, Rick Ridgeway and Conrad Anker. The expedition is featured in (''National Geographic's'' April 2003 issue ) and documented in Rick Ridgeway's book ''The Big Open.'' In May 2004, Jimmy climbed Everest with David Breashears and Ed Viesturs while filming for Working Title on a feature film project with Stephen Daldry (Director of ''The Hours''.) Jimmy later accompanied Ed Viesturs to Annapurna in 2005. Ed successfully climbed Annapurna and finished his quest to climb all of the world's 8000 meter peaks without oxygen. Jimmy photographed the expedition and the story was featured in the September 2005 issue of ''Men's Journal''. In October 2006, Jimmy achieved the first successful American ski descent of Mount Everest with Kit and Rob DesLauriers. They skied from the summit and are the only people to have skied the South Pillar route. In May 2007, he joined the Altitude Everest Expedition as a climber and expedition photographer in an attempt to retrace George Mallory and Sandy Irvine's fateful last journey up the North face of Everest. Outside of major Himalayan expeditions, Jimmy has participated in numerous exploratory climbing and skiing expeditions to Baffin Island, Borneo, Mali, Chad, Pitcairn Island and other remote regions of the planet. Jimmy's 2011 first ascent of Shark's Fin with Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk in the Garwhal Himalayas was nominated for a Piolet d'Or award, awarded the Golden Piton by ''Climbing Magazine'' for Best Big Wall Climb of the Year and voted the #1 ascent of the year by ''Rock and Ice Magazine''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jimmy Chin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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