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A Walnut Creek native made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route. Jim Morrison, 50, accomplished the feat at 7:45 p.m. local time after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme skier Jim Morrison, after several years of preparation, climbed Mount Everest's north face. His goal was to ski down it, a ...