Professional climber and filmmaker Jimmy Chin’s parents are Frank Chin and Yen Yen Chin. Are they still alive? Let’s find out.

Jimmy Chin is a professional climber, photographer, and Academy Award-winning film director. He co-directed Free Solo with his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and they won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Academy Awards. 

Alex Honnold and Jimmy Chin were climbing buddies. In 2015, Honnold chose Chin and his wife Elizabeth for the Free Solo. Chin and his team filmed Honnold’s free solo attempt of El Capitan on June 3, 2017, and the feature-length documentary won many awards including the People’s Choice Award: Documentaries at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and the 2018 BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.

Jimmy Chin Parents: Are Frank Chin And Yen Yen Chin Still Alive?

Jimmy Chin’s parents are Frank Chin and Yen Yen Chin. They were from China and moved to the U.S. during the Chinese Civil War.

Chin’s father was born in Wenzhou, and his mother was born in Harbin. They were both librarians and lived in Mankato, Minnesota. We are not sure if his parents are still alive and Jimmy has also not shared any information on them. They seem to be alive and well as of now.

However, we are not certain and hope to update it as soon as possible.

Find Out Jimmy Chin Net Worth

According to climbingapex, Jimmy Chin’s net worth in 2021 is estimated at $1 million. 

Chin is a professional climber, photographer, and Academy Award-winning film director Similarly, he has climbed the highest peak in the world, Mt. Everest, and skied down from the summit, crossed the Chang Tang Plateau in the north-western Tibet on foot, and made ascents of big walls and alpine towers in the Garhwal Himalayas of Northern India.

Likewise, Jimmy has organized and led numerous climbing, and ski-mountaineering expeditions to Nepal, China, Pakistan, India, Argentina, South Africa, Tanzania, Chad, Mali, and Greenland. His works have been featured in National Geographic, Outside, and Men’s Journal.

Meet Jimmy Chin Wife

Jimmy Chin is married to his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.

She is an American documentary filmmaker and Academy Award-winning director for Free Solo. The two exchanged their vows on May 26, 2013, and have two children, Marina and James. 

We can find Jimmy on Instagram where his username is @jimmychin. The National Geographic Filmmaker and Photographer has 2.9 million followers and has shared more than 1.9k posts so far on the platform.