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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thilina Sandaruwan" data-source="post: 9921902" data-attributes="member: 131814">Mountain Climbers Mountain climbers scale some of the highest peaks in the world in pictures by photographer Jimmy Chin<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/El-Capitain_1747930i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Here's  a photographer who will go to great heights in his search for the  ultimate picture. Jimmy Chin, probably the world's greatest adventure  photographer, has travelled the world with highly-skilled mountain  climbers,  scaling huge peaks and even skiing down the face of Mount EverestConrad  Anker reaches for his next gear placement, 2,500 feet off the ground on  the Pacific Ocean Wall of El Capitain, Yosemite National Park,  California<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/mountain-climbing-_1747854i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Jimmy  has built up a portfolio that documents his work in some of the most  inaccessible and extreme situations imaginable. Jimmy is the go-to man  for adventurers and publications such as National Geographic and Outside  MagazineYuji Hirayama climbs in Turkey in April 2009<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/mountain-climbing-_1747856i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />His  travels have taken him to the tallest freestanding sandstone towers in  the world, the Hand of Fatima in Mali, to the highest sheer cliff face  on the globe. "The climbs up the Hand of Fatima which is 2,000 feet and  Naga Parbat which is just over 15,000 feet were spectacular," said  Jimmy.  "The Hand of Fatima and the Kaga Tondo in Mali, is a personal  favourite of mine. That shot sums up the bravery and tremendous ability  of these climbers, who allowed me to join them and to experience the  same dangers that they face"  Cedar Wright and Kevin Thaw climb the south buttress of Kaga Tondo  on the Hand of Fatima in Mali on December 20, 2002. Click here to see a  larger version of this image<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/capitain-wall_1747907i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />To  work with Steph Davis as she became the first woman to free climb El  Capitan's Salathe Wall in Yosemite, was an honour and a privilege. "I am  always concerned with finding the right spot and the right shot, so  sometimes I forget to appreciate the skill of my fellow adventurers, but  I am aware of how my life has been changed by my ability with a camera"Steph  Davis free climbs the Salathe Wall of El Capitain in Yosemite National  Park, California, on November 4, 2005. Steph is the first and only woman  to free climb the Salathe<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Boulder-Pitch_1747912i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Steph Davis leading the crux "Boulder Pitch" on the Salathe Headwall in Yosemite National Park on November 4, 2005<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Mount-Everest_1747922i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Of  all his adventures though, his ascents of Everest stand out as his most  physically demanding and rewarding. "You do wonder - when you are at  28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are  struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?"Kit and Rob DesLauriers with Dave Hahn on the South Summit of Mount Everest on October 4, 2006<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Icefall-of-Mount-E_1747918i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />"But  of course once you reach the summit and  realise that there is nowhere you could stand taller on Earth, that's  why I do it. On my 2006 expedition to Everest me, Kit and Rob DesLauries  decided to speed up our descent of the mountain by skiing down its  south east ridge. To say that was fun and frivolous is a bit of an  understatement"Kit DesLauriers hiking through the Khumbu Icefall of Mount Everest on September 18, 2006<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Pacific-Ocean-Wall_1747919i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Pushing  himself hard in training between jaunts, Jimmy's life is a constant  whirl of planning, travel and photography. "I lose anywhere up to 20  pounds on location with adventurers like Conrad Anker or Brady  Robinson," said Jimmy.  "So I need to replace that lost weight and  muscle by training hard when I am back  in the States between jobs. And as I get older it is far more important  for me to be doing this and taking my conditioning seriously"Jimmy Chin climbing the Pacific Ocean Wall in Yosemite Park, California<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Jimmy-Chin-on-Moun_1747910i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Jimmy Chin on Mount Kinabalu, a World Heritage Site in Borneo, on April 25, 2009<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Karakoram-Mountain_1747928i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Granite towers reflected in a pool on the Karakoram  Mountains in Charakusa Valley, Pakistan. This image was taken on August 10, 1999 during Jimmy's first major climbing expedition<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/high-line-walker_1747917i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Dean  Potter, one of the greatest high line walkers in the world, walks on a  one-inch thick piece of webbing over a 500 foot deep chasm at  Canyonlands National Park in Indian Creek, Utah, in January 2007<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Redommaine-lake_1747903i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Kasha  Rigby, Giulia Monego and Ingrid Backstrom approach Redommaine peak  before their first ski descent in October 2009 during the Shangri La  Expedition, in the Himalayas<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Redommaine-peak_1747925i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Kasha  Rigby climbing Redommaine peak before the first ski descent in October  2009, during the Shangri La Expedition in the Himalayas<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Mount-Combatant_1747924i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Conrad  Anker traverses an alpine ridge deep in the Waddington Range on Mount  Combatant, Coastal Range in British Columbia, Canada<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/Mount-Meru_1747920i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Renan Ozturk on Mount Meru in Garwahl Himalaya, India, on September 14, 2009<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01747/jimmy-chin-on-meru_1747913i.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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