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.

The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the world's eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and ...

The body of a famed U.S. Hundreds of climbers and their local guides were attempting to reach the summit during Nepal's autumn climbing season. Body of famed U.S.

American skier Hilaree Nelson went missing on Manaslu during a ski descent from the true summit earlier this week. This morning, a helicopter search and ...

“We went up high and tried hard but the mountain said no,” Morrison wrote on Instagram. “On September 26th at 10:42 am, we reached the true summit of Manaslu in tough conditions,” Morrison said on Instagram. It took over an hour to dig Nelson out from the snow; she was then transported to Kathmandu.

The body of famed big-mountain skier Hilaree Nelson was found Wednesday after she went missing below the summit of Mount Manaslu in the Himalayas on Sept.

"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'. The 49-year-old mother of two was skiing with her partner, Jim Morrison, when she fell down the mountain. The body of famed big-mountain skier Hilaree Nelson was found Wednesday after she went missing below the summit of Mount Manaslu in the Himalayas on Sept.

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.

[VIDÉO] ▶️ La skieuse-alpiniste de renom avait été portée disparue lundi, après avoir glissé en descendant à ski le mont Manalsu, au Népal.

- 8 [Un incendie pour créer des pénuries ? - 3 Le jour même de sa disparition, une avalanche s'est produite entre les camps 3 et 4 du Manaslu, tuant un alpiniste népalais et blessant une dizaine de personnes, selon le département de tourisme du gouvernement. En 2012, elle fut la première femme à atteindre en 24 heures le sommet de l'Everest, la plus haute montagne du monde, et du mont voisin du Lhotse. De nombreuses personnes avaient partagé des messages de soutien sur les réseaux sociaux, espérant le retour sain et sauf d'Hilaree Nelson.

La skieuse-alpiniste, pionnière dans son domaine, est décédée, mercredi 28 septembre, à l'âge de 49 ans, après une ultime expédition himalayenne.

Dans la foulée, elle arrive à la tête de la team athlètes The North Face, marque américaine d’accessoires de sports de montagne. Skier le Manaslu, huitième plus haut sommet du monde, s’inscrivait sur la liste de ses exploits historiques. La suite, c’est une série de plus de quarante expéditions à travers le monde. Descendre à ski la « Dream Line », couloir du Lhotse, quatrième plus haut sommet de la planète (8 516 m). Mais il se passait tellement de choses, il y avait tant à apprendre. Née le 13 décembre 1972, Hilaree Nelson grandit à Seattle (Etat de Washington) et chausse les skis dès l’âge de 3 ans dans la chaîne des Cascades.

On a retrouvé et récupéré le corps de la skieuse et alpiniste Hilaree Nelson sur les flancs du Manaslu. Hier les recherches par hélicoptère avaient permis ...

Le corps a été retrouvé à une cinquantaine de mètres. On a retrouvé et récupéré le corps de la skieuse et alpiniste Hilaree Nelson sur les flancs du Manaslu. Tot ce matin heure du Népal, les efforts ont repris à l’endroit identifié la veille et un hélico y a déposé Jim Morrison et deux Sherpas.

Hilaree Nelson, la première femme à avoir gravi l'Everest en 24 heures, vient de mourir dans une expédition qu'elle menait avec son compagnon au Népal.

Elle partageait également sa déconvenue d'avoir échoué à gravir le sommet de la montagne : « Nous sommes allés très haut et avons essayé de continuer, mais la montagne a dit non. [rejoindre leur sherpa](https://www.vanityfair.fr/actualites/article/un-sherpa-nepalais-bat-des-records-au-sommet-de-leverest) lorsque Hilaree Nelson « a déclenché une petite avalanche ». Depuis deux jours, l'alpiniste de 49 ans avait disparu dans les neiges juste en dessous du sommet [du mont Manaslu](https://www.vanityfair.fr/actualites/diaporama/le-nepal-aneanti-apres-un-tremblement-de-terre/20218), huitième plus haut du monde. Ma perte est indescriptible et je me concentre désormais sur ses enfants et leur éducation. « J'ai fait tout ce que j'ai pu pour la retrouver et j'espérais la revoir vivante et passer le reste de ma vie à ses côtés, écrit-il, très ému. Elle a été balayée d'un coup puis emportée sur une étroite pente de neige.

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.

The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the world's eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and ...

The body of a famed U.S. Hundreds of climbers and their local guides were attempting to reach the summit during Nepal's autumn climbing season. Body of U.S.

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.