After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...

A Walnut Creek native has now become the first person to ski the North Face of Mount Everest via one of its most challenging ...

"I hope what we accomplished honors her and the love for these mountains we shared," skier Jim Morrison said of his late ...

An American skier made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route.

American skier Jim Morrison has descended the extremely steep and dangerous North Face of Mount Everest on skis. He dedicated ...

Located on the peak’s North Face, the Hornbein has captivated mountaineers since Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld made its first ascent in 1963. Morrison’s party was only the sixth to ascend the route, ...

Until now, we knew very little about the strategy the Polish skier used to ski down Everest without bottled oxygen. Here's ...

Extreme skier, Andrzej Bargiel, became the first person to ski down Mount Everest without additional oxygen on Tuesday, Sept.

It’s a beautiful day at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area with blue sky and fresh snow. A group of skiers pause and huddle midway down an intermediate slope, then follow a ski instructor as she makes ...

Skiing in the area began in earnest when nearby Lake Placid won the bid to host the third-ever winter Olympic Games in 1932. While alpine ski racing was not an event at these games, ski jumping and ...

The mountain biking at Whistler is almost as legendary as the skiing. The Whistler Bike Park has 4,900 vertical feet of biking and 50+ miles of terrain. The bike park is accessed by the Fitzsimmons ...

The old Iron Mountain resort, complete with broken-down ski lifts and burn scars from the Caldor Fire, has hit the market for ...