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.

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 ...

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 ...