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.
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 ...