A Mankato native who found fame as a climber can now add "Oscar winner" to his glittering resume.
Jimmy Chin walked away from Sunday night's Academy Awards with the Oscar for "Best Documentary" along with his wife and co-director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
They won for "Free Solo," a National Geographic documentary about the attempt by rock climber Alex Honnold to free climb El Capitan's 900-meter vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.