Climber-filmmaker Jimmy Chin: Living life on the edge

Commit, and then figure it out. 

“I often get asked, like, ‘What’s the greatest risk you’ve ever taken in your life?’ And I assume people think it’s on a mountain somewhere deciding to continue on,” Chin said. “It’s clear to me in my life that the biggest risk I ever took was deciding to commit to the dream I had.”

His parents, both librarians, escaped China’s Cultural Revolution. They had extremely high expectations for their kids: “I started playing the violin when I was three, and I swam competitively. Life was really about academics and competing every weekend. And if I got an A-minus, honestly, it would be like, ‘Why wasn’t that an A?’

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