"Jim Morrison, 50, completed the astonishing feat on Oct. 15 as he skied down the elusive line, a linkup of the Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs. Morrison spent six and a half weeks on the mountain before making a push for the summit with 11 other climbers, including fixers, Sherpas and a film crew led by photographer and National Geographic Explorer Jimmy Chin."
"In 2023, the team encountered permitting issues while entering China and arrived too late to make a summit attempt. In 2024, the crew was able to descend from about 22,966 feet, but a few days later, Morrison's rope fixing team was hit by a small avalanche that injured a Sherpa, and that was the end of that year's attempt. National Geographic reports that the fact Morrison was the one to achieve this feat won't surprise anyone who's followed his career."
Jim Morrison, 50, completed the first ski descent of Mount Everest's North Face via a linkup of the Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs on Oct. 15. He spent six and a half weeks on the mountain before making a summit push with 11 other climbers, including fixers, Sherpas, and a film crew led by photographer and National Geographic Explorer Jimmy Chin. Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi are directing a National Geographic documentary about the descent. Previous attempts were halted by permitting issues in 2023 and by an avalanche in 2024 that injured a Sherpa after a descent to about 22,966 feet. Morrison built a decade of daring high-altitude ski descents, often alongside his late partner Hilaree Nelson, who died nearly three years earlier in a fall near the summit of Manaslu.
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