Hilaree Nelson

Two days after Nelson went missing on Manaslu, details about the ski mountaineer's accident are emerging.

[Explorer’s Web](https://explorersweb.com/manaslu-injured-climbers-safely-off-mountain/) reports that the climbers injured and affected by the large avalanche between Camp III and IV were successfully evacuated by helicopter that same day. [Fernanda Maciel](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjAByk4IWpl/?hl=en), who was also climbing Manaslu on Monday, and who spent time with Morrison that evening. [Tuesday](https://everestchronicle.com/all-avalanche-survivors-evacuated-hilarees-search-on-the-mountain-called-off-for-the-day/), website Everest Chronicle reported that a rescue helicopter went out at 7 a.m., with Morrison on board, to conduct a search for Nelson. [news circulated](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/everest/hilaree-nelson-missing-manaslu-deadly-avalance/) that renowned ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was missing on 26,781-foot [Manaslu](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/everest/manaslu-summit-debate-record-climbers/). [Himalayan Times](https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/north-face-athlete-hilaree-nelson-missing-as-jim-morrison-skies-from-manaslu-summit) referenced an anonymous eyewitness who said that Nelson fell approximately 80 feet into a crevasse that was located just below the summit. Put the most accurate interactive trails maps in your pocket, with 400,000 trails to discover, plan, and track any trail adventure. He and Ghimire expressed concern that she could have fallen and slid into that steep, consequential terrain, and Filippini echoed Maciel’s story that Nelson may have been knocked off her skis by moving snow—even a small amount of sluff is considered an avalanche. Veteran Italian journalist [Alessandro Filippini](https://www.facebook.com/1516128088/posts/pfbid0fdgkK5toM4GCcgtYL32sDKBoxnabcsQP9xXVXSirFiytsiRvAUMMG4U39h7ZS5aPl/) has also published online. However, Ghimire disputed this, telling [Outside](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/everest/hilaree-nelson-missing-manaslu-deadly-avalance/) that she had instead lost a ski and then slid off of a large cliff. Understanding what happened to Nelson has been made more challenging by the lack of eyewitnesses, and by the fact that another disaster occurred lower on the mountain: a large avalanche below camp four killed at least one climber and buried a dozen or so others. Climbers can get internet access at Manaslu Base Camp, and some have posted regular updates about the rescue on social media. From this patchwork of information, we’ve put together an update on the search, what we know about Nelson’s fall, and what we’re still waiting to find out.

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 26775-foot summit with her partner Jim Morrison when she fell off the mountain, according to the company that ...

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. ski climber a day after she fell off near the peak of the world's eighth-highest mountain.

Hilaree Nelson is believed to have fallen while skiing down the 26781-feet Manaslu mountain in Nepal.

Nelson and Morrison were also the first people to ever successfully ski down from Lhotse's peak in 2018. "It was the best thing we could've done." And about 15 minutes later I got a call from our staff at Base Camp that her ski blade skidded off and [she] fell off the other side of the peak," Jiban Ghimire, managing director of Shangri-La Nepal Trek told Outside Yesterday we ended our summit bid when we decided it was too dangerous to move from C3 to C4." It is unclear whether she may have survived the fall. "The duo reached the true summit of Manaslu at 11.30 A.M.

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.