At over 20,000 feet, the West Face of Great Trango Tower rises straight out of the glacier, a sweep of rock and snow that had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Jim Morrison trains in the shadow of Everest’s north face in 2024. His Wednesday descent of the mountain’s Hornbein ...

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.

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 ...

An American skier 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 spending ...