The body of famed U.S. extreme skier Hilaree Nelson, who went missing after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain, was recovered Wednesday.
KATHMANDU, Nepal – The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who vanished this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and taken to Nepal’s capital.
Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 26,775-foot summit of Mount Manaslu with her partner, Jim Morrison, on Monday when she fell.Rescuers searching by helicopter located Nelson’s body on Wednesday after failing to find her on Monday and Tuesday, when bad weather hampered their search.Also on Monday, an avalanche at a lower elevation on the same mountain killed a Nepalese man and injured several other climbers.
Hundreds of climbers and their local guides were trying to reach the summit during Nepal’s autumn climbing season. Nelson, from Telluride, Colorado, and Morrison, from Tahoe, California, are extreme skiers who reached the summit of Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain, in 2018. Nepal’s government has issued permits to 504 climbers during the autumn season. Most are climbing Manaslu.
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