After climbing to the tallest point on Earth, it only took 4 hours and 5 minutes for world-renowned ski mountaineer Jim Morrison to enter the history books as the first person ever to successfully ski ...

A Walnut Creek native made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route. Jim Morrison, 50, accomplished the feat at 7:45 p.m. local time after ...

For most climbers, summiting Everest is an unfathomable accomplishment, marking the peak of mountain climbing success. For American climber Jim Morrison, the trek to the top of Mount Everest's north ...

The American team on the Tibetan side of Everest summited today via the North Face. Jim Morrison now intends to ski down from the top. A few climbers on the team, along with Nepali guides, scaled the ...

Everest has been skied and snowboarded, but past attempts have always been on the southern slope. On Oct. 15, world-renowned skier Jim Morrison flipped the script, though. Instead of going the same ...

While there are many discovered and named climbing routes on Everest, two routes are most commonly climbed: The South Col route starting from Nepal, and the Northeast Ridge Standard, or The North Col ...

A strong American team featuring skier Jim Morrison and Oscar-winning filmmaker Jimmy Chin is back on the Tibetan side of Everest. Morrison will attempt a full ski descent as a tribute to his late ...

Free Solo directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have documented ski mountaineer Jim Morrison’s descent down Mount Everest’s Hornbein Couloir in Everest North (w.t.) for National Geographic. The ...

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