Jimmy Chin has skied down Mount Everest and climbed the Shark's Fin, the granite wall on India's Meru Peak. But it's his adventures behind the camera that have brought him international fame.
Along with his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, he made the 2018 Oscar-winning film "Free Solo," which chronicled Alex Honnold's ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without ropes or other equipment. That was followed by 2021's "The Rescue," a documentary about the Tham Luang cave rescue.
Before the couple directed their first scripted feature, an upcoming movie about swimmer Diana Nyad starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, Chin squeezed in a 10-part series, "Edge of the Unknown," debuting at 9:30 p.m. ET Monday on National Geographic Channel. The show also will be available on Disney+ starting Wednesday.
