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Autographed Bookplated Edition

Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

By Jimmy Chin

Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

Autographed Bookplated Edition

Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

By Jimmy Chin

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This Hardcover Edition of Jimmy Chin's Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters is autographed on a bookplate by Jimmy Chin.

New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker of Free Solo, Jimmy Chin sits down with the icons who most inspire him to live a meaningful life, sharing their wisdom with readers, and creating his very own set of Rules to Live By.
Jimmy Chin’s impressive career as a mountain athlete, National Geographic photographer, New York Times bestselling author, and Academy Award-winning film director has taken him all over the world, from summiting and skiing Mount Everest, to expeditions and climbs from the Sahara to the Himalayas–all while capturing these jaw-dropping endeavors, the people he meets along the way, and the adventures in his award winning photographs and documentary films.
 
After achieving so much as an athlete and an artist, and finding fulfillment in starting his family, Jimmy really got thinking about the big ideas that had driven his success thus far, and what principles were going to drive him forward to keep creating and exploring. Drawing from his gift for interviewing as a documentary filmmaker, Jimmy set off to learn from his heroes, to conduct intimate conversations with those who inspire him, distilling the key principles that we can all use to carve the path to our best lives. Diving deep into their lives, careers, and insights on creativity, resilience, and charting your own course, Chin sought out guiding principles to create his own personal rules to live by.
 
From discussing creativity and storytelling with Yoyo Ma, to risk taking with Alex Honnold, to family and devotion with Kelly Slater, Chin brings us a book of revelatory stories of the trials and triumphs that helped these iconic individuals rise to the top of their fields, as well as Chin’s own journey to becoming the adventurer and artist he is today, inspiring readers to discover their own rules to live by.

Get your Jimmy Chin autographed book today!

Product Details

  • Pages: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Celadon Books
  • Release Date: September 29, 2026
  • ISBN-13: 9781250371645
  • Edition: Autographed Hardcover Bookplated Edition

About The Author

Jimmy Chin is an Academy® Award-winning filmmaker, award-winning National Geographic photographer and professional climber and skier. He has led and documented cutting edge expeditions around the world for over 20 years. He has climbed and skied Mount Everest from the summit and made the coveted first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru. His photographs have graced the covers of National Geographic Magazine and the New York Times Magazine.

In 2019 Chin, along with co-director and co-producer Chai Vasarhelyi, was awarded a BAFTA and the Academy® Award for Best Documentary Feature for FREE SOLO, an intimate, unflinching portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold. The film also received seven Emmy® awards.

More recently he co-directed his first scripted feature NYAD for NETFLIX, which saw both stars Annette Bening and Jodie Foster receiving Academy Award nominations.

In the fall of 2025, Chin has two new feature documentaries for National Geographic Documentary Films premiering – LOVE+WAR on acclaimed war photographer Lynsey Addario, and LOST IN THE JUNGLE on the incredible true story of four children who survived a plane crash in the Colombian Jungle.

Additional projects include the BAFTA and DGA nominated “The Rescue,” and the 2015 Sundance Audience Award winner “Meru.”

Chin was also the face of National Geographic’s critically acclaimed series “Edge of the Unknown With Jimmy Chin” which will premiered in 2022.

Chin lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and is the dedicated father of daughter, Marina, and son, James.

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This Hardcover Edition of Jimmy Chin's Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters is autographed on a bookplate by Jimmy Chin.

New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker of Free Solo, Jimmy Chin sits down with the icons who most inspire him to live a meaningful life, sharing their wisdom with readers, and creating his very own set of Rules to Live By.
Jimmy Chin’s impressive career as a mountain athlete, National Geographic photographer, New York Times bestselling author, and Academy Award-winning film director has taken him all over the world, from summiting and skiing Mount Everest, to expeditions and climbs from the Sahara to the Himalayas–all while capturing these jaw-dropping endeavors, the people he meets along the way, and the adventures in his award winning photographs and documentary films.
 
After achieving so much as an athlete and an artist, and finding fulfillment in starting his family, Jimmy really got thinking about the big ideas that had driven his success thus far, and what principles were going to drive him forward to keep creating and exploring. Drawing from his gift for interviewing as a documentary filmmaker, Jimmy set off to learn from his heroes, to conduct intimate conversations with those who inspire him, distilling the key principles that we can all use to carve the path to our best lives. Diving deep into their lives, careers, and insights on creativity, resilience, and charting your own course, Chin sought out guiding principles to create his own personal rules to live by.
 
From discussing creativity and storytelling with Yoyo Ma, to risk taking with Alex Honnold, to family and devotion with Kelly Slater, Chin brings us a book of revelatory stories of the trials and triumphs that helped these iconic individuals rise to the top of their fields, as well as Chin’s own journey to becoming the adventurer and artist he is today, inspiring readers to discover their own rules to live by.

Get your Jimmy Chin autographed book today!

Product Details

  • Pages: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Celadon Books
  • Release Date: September 29, 2026
  • ISBN-13: 9781250371645
  • Edition: Autographed Hardcover Bookplated Edition

About The Author

Jimmy Chin is an Academy® Award-winning filmmaker, award-winning National Geographic photographer and professional climber and skier. He has led and documented cutting edge expeditions around the world for over 20 years. He has climbed and skied Mount Everest from the summit and made the coveted first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru. His photographs have graced the covers of National Geographic Magazine and the New York Times Magazine.

In 2019 Chin, along with co-director and co-producer Chai Vasarhelyi, was awarded a BAFTA and the Academy® Award for Best Documentary Feature for FREE SOLO, an intimate, unflinching portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold. The film also received seven Emmy® awards.

More recently he co-directed his first scripted feature NYAD for NETFLIX, which saw both stars Annette Bening and Jodie Foster receiving Academy Award nominations.

In the fall of 2025, Chin has two new feature documentaries for National Geographic Documentary Films premiering – LOVE+WAR on acclaimed war photographer Lynsey Addario, and LOST IN THE JUNGLE on the incredible true story of four children who survived a plane crash in the Colombian Jungle.

Additional projects include the BAFTA and DGA nominated “The Rescue,” and the 2015 Sundance Audience Award winner “Meru.”

Chin was also the face of National Geographic’s critically acclaimed series “Edge of the Unknown With Jimmy Chin” which will premiered in 2022.

Chin lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and is the dedicated father of daughter, Marina, and son, James.

About the Author

This Hardcover Edition of Jimmy Chin's Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters is autographed on a bookplate by Jimmy Chin.

New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker of Free Solo, Jimmy Chin sits down with the icons who most inspire him to live a meaningful life, sharing their wisdom with readers, and creating his very own set of Rules to Live By.
Jimmy Chin’s impressive career as a mountain athlete, National Geographic photographer, New York Times bestselling author, and Academy Award-winning film director has taken him all over the world, from summiting and skiing Mount Everest, to expeditions and climbs from the Sahara to the Himalayas–all while capturing these jaw-dropping endeavors, the people he meets along the way, and the adventures in his award winning photographs and documentary films.
 
After achieving so much as an athlete and an artist, and finding fulfillment in starting his family, Jimmy really got thinking about the big ideas that had driven his success thus far, and what principles were going to drive him forward to keep creating and exploring. Drawing from his gift for interviewing as a documentary filmmaker, Jimmy set off to learn from his heroes, to conduct intimate conversations with those who inspire him, distilling the key principles that we can all use to carve the path to our best lives. Diving deep into their lives, careers, and insights on creativity, resilience, and charting your own course, Chin sought out guiding principles to create his own personal rules to live by.
 
From discussing creativity and storytelling with Yoyo Ma, to risk taking with Alex Honnold, to family and devotion with Kelly Slater, Chin brings us a book of revelatory stories of the trials and triumphs that helped these iconic individuals rise to the top of their fields, as well as Chin’s own journey to becoming the adventurer and artist he is today, inspiring readers to discover their own rules to live by.

Get your Jimmy Chin autographed book today!

Product Details

  • Pages: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Celadon Books
  • Release Date: September 29, 2026
  • ISBN-13: 9781250371645
  • Edition: Autographed Hardcover Bookplated Edition

About The Author

Jimmy Chin is an Academy® Award-winning filmmaker, award-winning National Geographic photographer and professional climber and skier. He has led and documented cutting edge expeditions around the world for over 20 years. He has climbed and skied Mount Everest from the summit and made the coveted first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru. His photographs have graced the covers of National Geographic Magazine and the New York Times Magazine.

In 2019 Chin, along with co-director and co-producer Chai Vasarhelyi, was awarded a BAFTA and the Academy® Award for Best Documentary Feature for FREE SOLO, an intimate, unflinching portrait of rock climber Alex Honnold. The film also received seven Emmy® awards.

More recently he co-directed his first scripted feature NYAD for NETFLIX, which saw both stars Annette Bening and Jodie Foster receiving Academy Award nominations.

In the fall of 2025, Chin has two new feature documentaries for National Geographic Documentary Films premiering – LOVE+WAR on acclaimed war photographer Lynsey Addario, and LOST IN THE JUNGLE on the incredible true story of four children who survived a plane crash in the Colombian Jungle.

Additional projects include the BAFTA and DGA nominated “The Rescue,” and the 2015 Sundance Audience Award winner “Meru.”

Chin was also the face of National Geographic’s critically acclaimed series “Edge of the Unknown With Jimmy Chin” which will premiered in 2022.

Chin lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and is the dedicated father of daughter, Marina, and son, James.

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Autographed Hardcover Bookplated Edition

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Unlock the value of your purchase by selecting authentication with JSA. This service, normally priced at $25, is available to you for only $12.
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