From 1999 to 2001, Chin organized climbing expeditions to
Pakistan's
Karakoram Mountains. He signed a sponsorship agreement with
The North Face in 2001. In 2002, he was asked to join a
National Geographic expedition to make an unsupported crossing of the remote
Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet with
Galen Rowell,
Rick Ridgeway and
Conrad Anker. The expedition was featured in
National Geographics April 2003 issue In May 2004, Chin climbed Everest with
David Breashears and
Ed Viesturs while filming for
Working Title on a feature film project with
Stephen Daldry. Chin later accompanied Ed Viesturs to Annapurna in 2005. Viesturs successfully climbed Annapurna and finished his quest to climb all of the world's 8000-metre peaks without oxygen. Chin photographed the expedition and the story was featured in the September 2005 issue of ''
Men's Journal''. In October 2006, he achieved the first successful American ski descent of Mount Everest with
Kit DesLauriers and Rob DesLauriers. They skied from the summit and are the only people to have skied the South Pillar Route on the Lhotse Face. In May 2007, Chin joined the Altitude Everest Expedition as a climber and expedition photographer in an attempt to retrace
George Mallory and
Sandy Irvine's fateful last journey up the North Face of Everest. In 2007, Chin ventured to Borneo with Mark Synnott, Conrad Anker, and
Alex Honnold to make the first ascent of a 2,500-foot overhanging alpine big wall at an elevation of 14,000 feet on Mount Kinabalu. In 2008, Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk made their first attempt on the "Shark's Fin", a 1,500-foot blade of granite leading to the summit of 21,000-foot Meru Central, in India's Garhwal Himalaya range. They spent 19 days on the wall but were forced to turn back just 100 meters short of the summit. In 2009, on an expedition to Chad's remote Ennedi Desert, Chin, Alex Honnold, Renan Ozturk, Mark Synott, and James Pearson made numerous first ascents of sandstone towers and arches. Outside of major Himalayan expeditions, Chin has participated in numerous exploratory climbing and skiing expeditions to Baffin Island, Borneo, Mali, Chad, the Pitcairn Islands, Antarctica, and other remote regions of the planet. In April 2011, Chin survived a class-4 avalanche in the Grand Tetons, his home mountain range. In October 2011 Chin,
Conrad Anker and
Renan Ozturk made the first ascent of the Shark's Fin route on
Meru Central in the Garhwal Himalayas in India. They had tried the same climb in 2008, but were forced to turn around 100m from the summit. His film of the climb,
Meru, was released in theaters in 2015. In 2017, Chin and Anker established a new route on
Ulvetanna Peak, called ''The Wolf's Fang'', in
Queen Maud Land, in
Antarctica. In 2020, Chin, Anker, Jim Morrison, and Hilaree Nelson climbed and skied
Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica, in a one-day push. The team spent less than 48 hours at the mountain. They then attempted to climb and ski the French Route on Mount Tyree, the second-highest peak in Antarctica but turned around due to avalanche danger. ==The Finding of Andrew Irvine's Remains==