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Jim Morrison completed the first ski descent of Everest's Hornbein Couloir, dedicating it to his late partner.

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Death Valley gets all the headlines. Lowest point in North America, hottest place on Earth, that whole dramatic mythos of a landscape so hostile it earned its name from gold rush pioneers who barely ...

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Mountaineer Jim Morrison has skied the last un-skied route on Mount Everest. Morrison told The Associated Press on Tuesday ...