Climber Jim Morrison and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discussed Morrison's history-making descent of Everest's north side on skis.

Mountaineer Jim Morrison hopped left on his skis, sending trickles of snow down a sheer gully on the North Face of Mount ...

Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker shares a name with a 19 th century alpinist, the first woman to summit the Matterhorn, in 1871, and the Eiger, in 1864 (feats she accomplished in ...

The must-see movies about Mount Everest are often either inspiring or terrifying documentaries, from Dying for Everest to Sherpa.

The only woman to have scaled Mount Everest 10 times is making easy work of a steep hill in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. On a blistering July day, Lhakpa Sherpa — whose remarkable story is told in the ...

Alex Honnold is a Rock Star. Alex is an American climber known for his amazing feats climbing rock. He thrives on massive granite walls, with little to no protection, and often climbs alone. Honnold ...

The First Ski Descent on Everest’s North Face Elite American ski mountaineer Jim Morrison and Oscar-winning filmmaker and ...

The new mountain-climbing documentary Meru is not only an irresistible adrenaline rush of a movie (opening Friday at Bay Area theatres), but for serious film buffs a very tangible lesson in the ...

One of the first shots in the new documentary called, simply enough, Mountain, is of a solo climber hanging from a the face of a cliff, hundreds of feet up ... untethered. He's in sneakers, a red ...

As any true adventurer knows, not every night can be spent under the stars in a national park, or clinging to the side of a big wall in a portaledge. Some nights are meant to be spent cuddled up with ...