Jimmy Chin on the Power of Turning Back: A Summit Can Wait

Jimmy Chin was just 100 meters from the summit when his team made the difficult decision to turn around. At the time, he said, “It felt awful.”
The climber and filmmaker explains that setting aside emotion and making objective decisions under pressure helped keep the team alive to climb another day.
They eventually returned to the mountain featured in his film *Meru* and successfully reached the summit.