When adventurers talk about Mount Everest, most often it's about climbing the world's highest peak.

In October, Jim Morrison went the other way, becoming the first person to ski down Everest's

most dangerous route. It was chronicled by Jimmy Chin, a mountaineer, and an Academy Award-winning

filmmaker for an upcoming National Geographic documentary.

Jim Morrison joins us now.

Jim, where did the idea for this come from?

This is a lifetime of skiing in big mountains all over the world,

and my partner, Hillary and Nelson,

and I have been working towards this endeavor for a long time.

Hillary, we should note, died tragically in an avalanche on another Himalayan mountain in

2022.

You plan to do this together?

We had.

We dreamed this up shortly after we had skied a neighboring mountain, the fourth highest

mountain in the world, Lotez, right next to Everest, and I've been working towards

getting there and achieving this goal

together. How long have you been doing this sort of thing? Really in my whole life. I've been

trying to make us turn on the side of the ski run as a little kid and in the steepest, hardest,

firmest snow I could find and see what I could and couldn't do on my skis, and it's been my life's

passion to climb interesting mountains all over the planet.

Climb interesting mountains, in order to ski down, you've got to get to the peak.

Talk about the climb up.

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