Hilaree Nelson

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was one of the world's most successful climbers, having conducted more than 40 expeditions over a two-decade-plus career.

She was also the first woman to climb Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse in a single 24-hour period, and served as captain of the North Face sponsored athletes team. - She leaves behind two children and a partner, James Morrison, also an experienced climber who reached the summit with her The body of mountain climber Hilaree Nelson has been found on Nepal's Mount Manaslu, two days after the pioneering American fell while descending the peak with her partner.

After going missing on Monday while descending from the summit, Nelson was found by a search and rescue team.

She had traveled to Nepal with Morrison to notch a ski descent from Manaslu’s true summit—in previous years, most mountaineers turned around at a point that was anywhere from 20 to 25 feet shy of the highest point. On Monday and Tuesday, helicopter transport flew multiple injured climbers down to Base Camp from the slide. Nelson was among the most accomplished ski mountaineers and alpinists on the planet. A group of climbers ascending from Camp Four at approximately 24,000 feet was hit by an avalanche, and the slide trapped 14 of them in snow and ice. She also was the first woman to ski the Makalu La Couloir on 27,825-foot Makalu. The expedition earned Nelson a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award. 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. “Today with the help of [Captain Surendra Patel] an incredibly skilled pilot we were able to land at 22,000 feet and search for her,” Morrison wrote. 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.” Morrison returned to the mountain on Monday with a helicopter crew, but rescue operations were hampered by bad weather. 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. Nelson’s partner, Jim Morrison, was part of the rescue team that recovered her body.

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 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 adventurer, who set records and climbed Mount Everest, fell near the summit of Manaslu, a peak in the Nepalese Himalayas.

Climbers in the area regularly grapple with changing weather and avalanches. In 2012, she became the first woman to climb two of the world’s tallest mountains, Mount Everest and neighboring Mount Lhotse, in the same 24-hour period. “We went up high and tried hard but the mountain said no,” Morrison The tourism board did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “The constant monsoon with its incessant rain and humidity has made me hopelessly homesick.” A resident of Telluride, Colo., Nelson grew up in Seattle and spent weekends at Stevens Pass in Washington’s Cascades.

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.

Before her recent death, renowned ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson discussed the tricky balance of juggling a professional ski career and motherhood with us.

But a traumatic event convinced her that having kids was the right move, and that her career would survive. But she came out the other side, and has become an icon since. It was a tricky balance: she told us she undervalued herself in the beginning and had reservations about having children given her career.

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.

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."