Five Minutes With Jimmy Chin

For Jimmy Chin, the award-winning director of Free Solo and Meru, his career as a filmmaker-adventurer has meant being an active participant in high-altitude Himilayan climbing expeditions and sleeping in a tent nailed to a vertical cliff hundreds of feet in the air, all while working. Last month, we caught up with Chin in his hometown of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to discuss climbing and expeditions, watches and time, and his relationship with Panerai. In our time together, Chin explained that he's always felt a certain urgency in life and that it's directed the way that he lives. "It's something that's captured in a timepiece," he says. Hear the explorer reflect on time and more, in this episode of "Five Minutes With". For the full article, visit: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/jimmy-chin