Jim Morrison Skis Down Everest's North Face — SkimNews
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- Jim Morrison makes the dangerous attempt to climb up and ski down the North Face of Everest in Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's NatGeo documentary "Everest: The Other Side."
- Everest: The Other Side is a documentary the review calls a spellbinding chronicle from the Oscar-winning "Free Solo" team, haunted by tragedies that it "never flinches at."
Why it matters: The stake here is framing: for viewers of high-altitude adventure films, Vasarhelyi and Chin present Jim Morrison as a grieving mountaineer and keep the tragedies on screen instead of editing them away. The North Face attempt becomes the vehicle for a portrait built around loss rather than a victory lap.
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