Walnut Creek Native Becomes First Person Ever to Ski Down the North Face of Mount Everest

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/27/walnut-creek-native-becomes-first-person-ever-to-ski-down-the-north-face-of-mount-everest/Former Walnut Creek resident Jim Morrison just skied about 30,000 feet down the north face of Mount Everest, becoming the first person ever to ski down Everest’s steepest and most challenging route, the Hornbein Couloir. Mountain climber Jim Morrison is a native of Walnut Creek in Contra Costa County, though these days he lives in Tahoe City, California. That’s probably a more appropriate place for him to live, considering that he has already skied down the fourth-largest mountain in the world,  the Himalayas’ Lhotse (27,940 feet). But Morrison just went even bigger than that. KGO reports that Morrison just became the first person to