The Travel Diaries · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Mountaineer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discusses his latest documentary, 'Everest, The Other Side', which follows ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson on their attempt to ski the direct north face of Mount Everest. Chin notes that the project combined an incredible human story of love and loss with the ultimate ski line on Earth.
“And fast forward to today, and we're here to talk about your documentary film, Everest, The Other Side. Oh, Jimmy, that was quite, quite a extraordinary. Can you take me back to the beginning before everything happened? What was a film that you thought you were making? And what did it then become?”
“And that line on Everest has sort of a mythical quality to it. You know, people in our world have always known that that is the ultimate ski line on planet Earth.”