Tahoe’s own Jim Morrison is the feature of an upcoming National Geographic documentary, capturing his Oct. 15 accomplishment ...

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.

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Just before noon on July 20, 2025, an Italian mountaineer named Marco Confortola trudged to the summit of 26,509-foot Gasherbrum I in Pakistan. Confortola snapped photos of himself to commemorate the ...

Earlier this month, news broke that skier and mountaineer Jim Morrison had completed the first successful ski descent of Mt. Everest’s foreboding Hornbein Couloir. First climbed in 1963 by Tom ...

BEIJING (AP) — Local authorities have shut down a popular hiking destination on Mount Everest in China's Tibet region because of heavy snowfall and icy conditions. Tourism officials said Zhufeng peak ...