Overview
- On Oct. 15, Morrison skied from near the 29,032-foot summit through the Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs on Everest’s North Face.
- The solo descent covered roughly 9,000 vertical feet in about four hours on a no‑fall line in the death zone.
- Morrison called the conditions “a horrific snowpack,” using fixed ropes in sections while his teammates down‑climbed.
- About a dozen climbers supported the ascent via the rarely completed Super Direct route, which had not seen a successful climb since 1991.
- He dedicated the run to his late partner Hilaree Nelson, spreading some of her ashes on the summit, with the documentary Everest North now in production.