Elite mountaineer Jim Morrison, fueled by a promise he made to his deceased partner, ascended and then skied down Mount ...

Venturing up a deserted Everest to summit without supplementary oxygen and then skiing all the way down to Base Camp, avoiding or somehow descending the treacherous Khumbu Icefall on skis, seems like ...

Polish mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to ski down Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, completing a descent his team called a “groundbreaking milestone in the world of ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A menacing 50-degree slope and 9,000 feet straight down: that’s the terrain American mountaineer Jim Morrison tackled when he ...

Hans Kammerlander is not impressed with Andrzej Bargiel's recent Everest ski descent. The South Tyrolean, himself a high-altitude ski pioneer, described the Pole's recent descent as part of a show ...

Andrzej Bargiel made history back in September when he became the first person to climb Mount Everest without oxygen and then ski down to Everest Base Camp. His descent followed a 16-hour climb ...

Yuichiro Miura set the world speed skiing record at Italy's Kilometer Lanchard in 1964, only to see it broken the next day. Akira Kotani On the afternoon of May 6, 1970, Yuichiro Miura stood on Mount ...