Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison is a prolific and resilient ski mountaineer. The lifelong adventurer has summited and skied some of the most formidable peaks across the planet, from Everest to Lhotse to India’s Papsura Peak. Jim’s journey began in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where he and his brother John grew up chasing ski legends down the slopes of Squaw Valley. While he made a name for himself early on as an exceptional athlete, it wasn’t until later that his path truly began to take shape. After a tragic plane crash claimed the lives of his wife and their daughters in 2011, Jim turned to the mountains to heal. What began as an outlet for grief soon became a lifelong pursuit of the world’s most challenging climbs and ski descents. In 2025, Jim completed the first ski descent of Everest’s Hornbein Couloir, dubbed the “most audacious ski run in history,” which will be the subject of an upcoming documentary project directed & produced by Jimmy Chin. And in 2018, Jim and his partner Hilaree Nelson ma