Alex Honnold is a Rock Star. Alex is an American climber known for his amazing feats climbing rock. He thrives on massive granite walls, with little to no protection, and often climbs alone. Honnold ...

Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker shares a name with a 19 th century alpinist, the first woman to summit the Matterhorn, in 1871, and the Eiger, in 1864 (feats she accomplished in ...

The new mountain-climbing documentary Meru is not only an irresistible adrenaline rush of a movie (opening Friday at Bay Area theatres), but for serious film buffs a very tangible lesson in the ...

A new documentary premiered on Netflix Wednesday and tackles a unique subject that is long overdue for exploration. “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa,” follows the life of Nepalese ...

For American climber Jim Morrison, the trek to the top of Mount Everest's north face was only the beginning of his historic ...

Meru, a 2015 documentary film co-directed by Jimmy Chin and his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, thrills. The awe-inspiring film examines the 2011 first ascent of a new route up a 4,000-foot wall ...

The only woman to have scaled Mount Everest 10 times is making easy work of a steep hill in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. On a blistering July day, Lhakpa Sherpa — whose remarkable story is told in the ...

As any true adventurer knows, not every night can be spent under the stars in a national park, or clinging to the side of a big wall in a portaledge. Some nights are meant to be spent cuddled up with ...

Walnut Creek native Jim Morrison and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discussed Morrison becoming the first person to ski down Everest's ...

After suffering a catastrophic and almost fatal spinal cord injury, professional rugby player Ed Jackson's world changed forever. He joined us to share the new documentary "The Mountain Within Me" ...