Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award-winning director, New York Times bestselling author and National Geographic photographer. He has been an active professional climber and skier on The North Face Athlete team for over 20 years, leading cutting edge climbing and mountaineering expeditions and making first ascents in some of the most remote mountain ranges on the planet. As a photographer, Jimmy's work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Outside, and others. He has won numerous awards for his photography including National Geographic’s prestigious Photographers’ Photographer Award. Along with his wife and co-director, Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy produced and directed Free Solo, an intimate portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019. More recently, they directed and produced Wild Life, a sweeping portrait of conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins chronicling their fight to preserve millions of acres in Chile and Argentina. Their first scripted feature, Nyad, about Diana Nyad's 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, began streaming on Netflix in the fall of 2023 and garnered Academy Award, Golden Globe, and SAG nominations for both stars Jodie Foster and Annette Bening.