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

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was certainly a rarity among conservationists: She was a household name. For more than six decades, she was the ...

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

For nearly a decade, teams of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have been visiting Eastern Europe to ...

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

Disney earns big nominations for Critics Choice Documentary Awards with National Geographic, Hulu and ESPN titles.

The Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations have been announced with "Orwell: 2+2=5," "The Alabama Solution" and "The ...

After climbing to the tallest point on Earth, it only took 4 hours and 5 minutes for world-renowned ski mountaineer Jim Morrison to enter the history books as the first person ever to successfully ski ...

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

Jim Morrison, 50, completed the historic run on October 15 as a tribute to his late partner, Hilaree Nelson, who died in an ...