Hilaree Nelson

Nelson, 49, fell down narrow slope on ski back to camp after scaling Nepali peak of Manaslu with partner.

Although the mountain is considered one of the easier high peaks to climb, its massive avalanches have proved deadly: in 2012, an avalanche [killed](https://www.climbing.com/news/deadly-avalanche-on-manaslu/?__hstc=129124307.5fcd08865a9a4f3f381924b4cfaeffde.1664295053175.1664295053175.1664295053175.1&__hssc=129124307.1.1664295053177&__hsfp=2610755529) eight climbers. “She had heroic strengths – not only in mountains, but in her community, and her family,” climber and videographer Renan Ozturk, a friend of Nelson’s, told National Geographic. On Instagram last week, Nelson expressed doubt that they would end up making it to the summit as heavy rain and humidity was making climbing difficult. “My loss is indescribable and I am focused on her children and their steps forward.” Nelson and her partner, Jim Morrison, had scaled the 26,781ft peak of Manaslu on Monday morning. She was swept off her feet and carried down a narrow snow slope down the south side (opposite from climbing route) of the mountain over 5,000 [feet],” Morrison wrote.

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the summit of 26775-foot Mount Manaslu on Monday when she fell off the mountain.

Nelson, from Telluride, Colo., and Morrison, from Tahoe, Calif., are extreme skiers who reached the summit of Mount Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain, in 2018. Hundreds of climbers and their local guides were attempting to reach the summit during Nepal's autumn climbing season. KATHMANDU, Nepal — The body of a famed U.S.

According to liaison officers in Nepal, an avalanche blew Hilaree Nelson and her partner, Jim Morrison, off a cliff while they were attempting to scale the ...

Some of the injured were flown to Kathmandu and were being treated in hospitals. We made two helicopter rescue attempts to find her but were unable," Sherpa said. The Times reports Morrison skied to base camp for help, but poor weather conditions delayed a helicopter survey and rescue mission until Tuesday morning. "Others injured ones have broken hands and feet." Nepalese rescuers in a helicopter were searching Tuesday for a famed U.S. ski climber a day after she fell off near the peak of the world's eighth-highest mountain.

The first woman to lead a global team of adventurers, she made dozens of first descents from peaks around the world. Her body was found on Wednesday.

Nelson and Mr. “She was a mountaineer that didn’t push it just to push it — she was there to get it when it was perfect and get it done,” Mr. [she told National Geographic](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/hilaree-nelson-oneill-ski-mountaineer?loggedin=true), which awarded the team “explorer of the year” honors in 2018. Morrison returned from India and, on Denali in Alaska, climbed Cassin Ridge and skied down the [Messner Couloir](https://fatmap.com/routeid/318691/messner-couloir/@63.0438413,-151.0004518,17942.5294872,-20.8466451,59.4485426,3537.8353600,satellite). It was the culmination of a long-held obsession for Ms. The trip was riddled with problems and became the basis of a short documentary, “That was a huge part of learning how to be by myself, which is a surprisingly huge part of mountaineering.” Nelson said a few years ago](https://www.tetongravity.com/feature/ski/breaking-through-hilaree). [Hilaree Nelson](https://hilareenelson.com/about/) was born in Seattle on Dec. “She was equal to men,” Mr. [Conrad Anker](https://www.conradanker.com/), an occasional expedition partner, said in a phone interview on Wednesday that the Lhotse expedition was as consequential a mountaineering feat as any in the past decade. In 2012 she climbed to the top of both Mount Everest and neighboring Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest peak, within 24 hours — the first woman to do so.

The climbing community mourned the death of skier Hilaree Nelson after she fell from one of the world's highest mountains.

"She helped lead our family at The North Face, by being a teammate and team captain who changed our perspective of the outdoors by showing us exactly what it can mean. "She broke ground and shattered expectations with a unique combination of grace and grit only a true leader possesses." "She has been the beacon of light in my life day in and day out," he said while describing the events of the day she went missing and how he was with the search team who found her body. "For us, Hilaree transcended the idea of an athlete, a sport or a community," the post said. The climbing community mourned her passing as they remembered her as a friend, mentor and trailblazer. ... I did everything I could to locate her but was unable to go down the face as I hoped to find her alive and live my life with her. She was swept off her feet and carried down a narrow snow slope. "... extreme skier Hilaree Nelson died this week when she was skiing down Nepal's Mount Manaslu, the eighth-highest mountain in the world, and was swept away in an avalanche. ... I’m devastated by the loss of her." She fell Monday when she was skiing with her partner, Jim Morrison, and She was 49.

The body of top American mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was found on Wednesday near a 26700-foot (8138-meter) mountain peak in Nepal where she went missing ...

"Today we lost our hero, mentor and our friend," The North Face wrote in a post Twitter. At the time of her death she was living in Telluride, Colorado, with her two sons. "My loss is indescribable and I am focused on her children and their steps forward."

The famed extreme skier was blown off Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, by a small avalanche on Monday.

Hundreds of climbers and their local guides were attempting to reach the summit during Nepal’s autumn climbing season. Nelson and Morrison, from Tahoe, California, are extreme skiers who reached the summit of Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain, in 2018. At the time of her death, she was living in Telluride, Colorado, with her two sons.

Nelson, 49, and her partner, Jim Morrison, were skiing from the 26,775-foot summit of Mount Manaslu — the world's eighth-tallest mountain — in what Morrison ...

Nelson said she went on one expedition while six months pregnant and took pay cuts because, for an elite climber, “being pregnant was treated like an injury.” Harrington, who is pregnant with her first child, paid tribute to her decade of friendship and outdoor camaraderie with Nelson, praising her as a pioneer for women in the sport. Morrison wrote of his indescribable loss of “this woman, my life partner, my lover, my best friend, and my mountain partner” and turned his focus to her sons’ “steps forward. We got back to BC soaking wet, in the pouring rain, just in time for a hearty BC dinner. She became the first woman to climb two of the world’s tallest mountains, Mount Everest and neighboring Mount Lhotse, in a 24-hour period in 2014. “As soon as I made the first turn in the sticky hot pow, in a total white out, all the weight and seriousness that had been plaguing me this whole trip faded to the background. Over the past two decades, Nelson had been in about 40 expeditions and was regarded as the “most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation” by one of her sponsors, North Face. Ballinger called Nelson, the mother of two young sons, “an incredible force in life” who had mentored his wife, Emily Harrington, a climber and adventurer as well, “in all things life and mountains — from snow baths at 21,000 feet to finding her power and strength and confidence, to beating the boys at arm wrestling, and so often, up and down the mountain. @hilareenelson is the most inspiring person in life and now her energy will guide our collective souls. Four years later, she and Morrison became the first to ski down from the 27,940-foot summit of Lhotse. She was swept off her feet and carried down a narrow snow slope down the south side (opposite from climbing route) of the mountain over 5000 [feet],” Nelson and Morrison, who is from Tahoe, Calif., were among the hundreds of climbers who, with local guides, were attempting to reach the summit during Nepal’s autumn climbing season. “We quickly transitioned from climbing to skiing in cold and wind with a plan to ski around the corner and regroup with our Sherpa team.