Hilaree Nelson

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.

World-famous ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson has tragically been found dead after she fell from a mountain following an avalanche in Nepal this week.

"Her body has been brought to Kathmandu for autopsy," Yadav said. Ski-Climbing Star Hilaree Nelson Found Dead After Avalanche On Peak In Nepal After Avalanche On Peak In Nepal

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.

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."

She became the first known woman to climb both Everest and Lhotse in the span of 24 hours back in 2012.

Her light will forever be an offering, and her optimism in the face of adversity, will forever be our guide.” According to [The North Face](https://www.thenorthface.com/en-us/about-us/athletes/hilaree-nelson), for whom she was a sponsored athlete, Nelson’s career stretched over two decades and included “dozens of first descents through more than 40 expeditions to 16 different countries,” cementing herself as “the most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation.” “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. Fast forward a few years, she and Morrison reached the peak of the world’s fourth-highest mountain Nelson “was swept off her feet and carried down a narrow snow slope down the south side,” 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.”

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.

She leaves behind two children, a loving partner, and a hard-earned legacy of badass accomplishments on the highest mountains on earth. We interviewed Nelson ...

I’m just living life, and I really want people to understand that to get to be successful at anything takes a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice. At this point in my life, to be a role model, to be in that position, I feel really fortunate. And then I’ll start waking up in cold sweats in the middle of the night because I’ll have dreamt that I’m in this place and I’m like—Oh, shit. I don’t want to be put on a pedestal; I want to be seen as a role model who’s a real person and who helps people understand that they can do great things while being very imperfect. I have this whole process where I start to think about something that I want to do, and then I’ll be like, No, no, no, no. When it first started becoming such a big part of my story that I was a mom and still doing this, I was really resistant to it. Because I have been given a path to follow, I feel very selfish in many ways, and the way that I balance that is by being honest and telling my story as best I can to help other people. I thought that if I was open about it, then more moms out there might hear my story and choose to do things a little differently than they originally thought they could. But then my feelings shifted a bit because I am a mom and I am doing it. I feel like I’ve been given a gift to be able to be good at something in life, to be able to follow that and be super passionate about it. Of course, it took me a second but I when I realized it was me I was kinda blown away. I really want to be able to look back and say—Okay, I did something about this.

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.

Ski Mountaineer Hilaree Nelson Died in an Avalanche at the Age of 49 ... Climbers and skiing aficionados are in mourning following the news that Hilaree Nelson, a ...

Following the confirmation of her death, tributes began pouring out for Hilaree, who was one of the defining athletes in her sport. “She was there with the strongest men, an equal to Jim. Hilaree was swept off her feet by a small avalanche shortly thereafter. Nelson was 49 years old, and her husband, Jim Morrison, who was also her climbing partner, confirmed the news that his wife had died. Once they reached the peak, they both strapped on the skis that they had carried to the top and began to make their way back down. That peak is more than 25,000 feet above sea level, and Hilaree and Jim both made it to the top safely.