Theo Zenou

Meet climber, photographer and filmmaker extraordinaire Jimmy Chin

Chin is part Bear Grylls, part David Attenborough: he both climbs snow, ice and rock and films other mountaineers doing it too

Kit DesLauriers, in orange, and Rob DesLauriers, in black, roping up at 28,500ft to rappel the Hillary Step during Chin’s ski descent of Everest

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