How Old Is Jimmy Chin? Jimmy Chin Birthday
Jimmy Chin was born on October 12, 1973 and is 52 years old now.
Birthday: October 12, 1973
How Old - Age: 52
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Jimmy Chin - Biography
Jimmy Chin is an American professional climber, mountaineer, skier, director and photographer. He has organized and led numerous climbing, ski-mountaineering and exploratory expeditions to China, Pakistan, Nepal, Tanzania, Chad, Mali, South Africa, 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, and crossing the Chang Tang Plateau in north-western Tibet on foot.
Chin was born and raised in Mankato, Minnesota and graduated from Mankato West High School. Both his parents were born in China; his father was from Wenzhou and his mother from Harbin. They both worked as librarians.
He is a 1996 alumnus of Carleton College, where he received a BA in Asian Studies. He first became involved in climbing while at Carleton. After college, he became a climbing vagabond, and then discovered photography as a way of making a living at it.
On May 26, 2013, Chin married Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, a director and producer.
