Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme skier Jim Morrison, after several years of preparation, climbed Mount Everest's north face. His goal was to ski down it, a ...
Mountaineer Jim Morrison hopped left on his skis, sending trickles of snow down a sheer gully on the North Face of Mount Everest, then he hopped to the right, his breath heavy in the oxygen-thin air.
On October 15 American mountaineer Jim Morrison, 50, became the first person to ski the North Face of Mount Everest (29,032 feet) via its most challenging and elusive line, a linkup of the Hornbein ...