Renowned American ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson missing from Mount Manaslu

KATHMANDU: Renowned American ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson has gone missing in Mount Manaslu avalanche. According to Jeevan Ghimire, Managing Director of Shangrila Nepal Treks Pvt Ltd in Kathmandu, Jim Morrison, who went skiing along with Nelson, has already returned to the base camp safely. However, the whereabouts of Nelson as of Monday evening is yet […]

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Hilaree Nelson: Body of famed US climber found on Mt Manaslu in Himalayas

SEPT 29: Nelson, 49, was descending the world's eighth highest summit with her partner when she went missing on Monday. Rescuers found her body on the south face of the 8,163m (26,781ft) peak on Wednesday. Earlier reports said she had fallen into a crevasse in a glacier. Nelson was regarded as one of the finest mountaineers of her generation. In 2018, she and her partner Jim Morrison became the first people to ski down Mount Lhotse in Nepal, the world's fourth-highest peak. She is also the first woman to climb both the world's highest mountain, Everest, and Lhotse, which is adjacent, in a single 24-hour period. Morrison and three Sherpa guides were dropped by helicopter to recover Nelson's body from about 6,000m on Manaslu on Wednesday morning, expedition organisers said. "The body has been brought to base camp. After completing necessary legal procedures, it will be airlifted to Kathmandu," said Jiban Ghimire, managing director of Shangri-La Nepal Trek, the Kathmandu Post reported. Earlier helicopter search attempts had been unsuccessful, and hampered by bad weather. On the same day Nelson went missing, one person was killed and more than a dozen injured in an avalanche lower down on the same peak. She is reported to have fallen into a deep crevasse in the ice only 15 minutes after reaching the summit of Manaslu, according to witnesses. A local guide that had been working with the couple told Outside magazine that other climbers who were with them reported that "her ski blade skidded off and [she] fell off the other side of the peak".

Famed ski climber Hilaree Nelson found dead, body brought to Kathmandu

The 49-year-old was skiing down the 8,163-metre summit with her partner Jim Morrison.

Missing American ski-mountaineer Hilaree found dead in Manaslu

GORKHA, Sept 28: American ski-mountaineer Hilaree Nelson, who had gone missing while skiing on Mt Manaslu, has been found dead. The body of Hilaree, who was missing since Monday while climbing Mt Manaslu, was found on Wednesday, District Police Office, Gorkha said.

Hilaree Nelson, world-famous ski mountaineer, dead in Nepal’s Manaslu avalanche

Hilaree Nelson, a world-famous ski mountaineer from the United States, has been found dead after an avalanche in Nepal's Manaslu region, a government official confirms. The post Hilaree Nelson, world-famous ski mountaineer, dead in Nepal’s Manaslu avalanche appeared first on OnlineKhabar English News.