Hilaree Nelson

2022 - 9 - 29

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U.S. ski-climber Hilaree Nelson missing after fall on Himalayan peak (The Washington Post)

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.

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Hilaree Nelson notched many firsts in a life of high-altitude adventures (National Geographic)

The climber and ski mountaineer, who died on a peak in Nepal, was driven to seek challenges that stretched her endurance to the limit.

“Hilaree paved the way for women in the adventure sports space with her refusal to choose between motherhood and her athletic career. “A lot of things I’ve done are a first but only a female first,” Nelson reflected in a North Face video. “It was the beginning.” Indeed, friends noticed a new gleam in Nelson’s eye after she returned from Hkakabo Razi. “The media wrote it as a failure, but it was anything but for us,” Rees adds. In 2017, Nelson and Morrison embarked on another first, of sorts—their first mountain expedition together, as a couple. … She stuck with her vision, in that she wanted to do this expedition in a different way and see the entire country from bottom to top. Part of the genesis for the trip was Nelson’s desire to do an “old school adventure,” somewhere remote and off the map compared to the crowded routes up Mount Everest. “She’s seen as this athlete, trying to maximize her physical capabilities, but to me she was very soulful,” says Taylor Rees, a filmmaker who collaborated with Nelson on several projects. Soon after she graduated, Nelson booked a one way ticket to Europe and began to learn about big-mountain skiing, winning an extreme ski championship along the way. “Oftentimes in life, people want to play it safe, and we make everything around us—especially in the Western world—to be comfortable and safe,” ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson once mused. In 2018, Nelson was named captain of the North Face Athlete Team, a title only one other athlete has held. Soon after the 49-year-old Nelson began her descent on skis, she triggered a small avalanche and was swept away.

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Body of missing US mountaineer Hilaree Nelson found in Nepal (The Guardian)

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.

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US climber Hilaree Nelson found dead after fall from Mount Manaslu ... (Sky News)

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down the 26775ft (8163m) summit with her partner Jim Morrison on Monday when she disappeared.

"The constant monsoon with its incessant rain and humidity has made me hopelessly homesick. We made two helicopter rescue attempts, but we were unable to find her." The 49-year-old was skiing down the 26,775ft (8,163m) summit with her partner Jim Morrison on Monday

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A famed U.S. extreme skier's body is recovered in Nepal (NPR)

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.

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Hilaree Nelson, 49, Top Ski Mountaineer, Is Dead in Nepal Avalanche (The New York Times)

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.

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Body of missing American ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson found ... (Reuters)

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."

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Body of extreme skier Hilaree Nelson (49) recovered in Nepal (Independent.ie)

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

Nepal’s government has issued permits to 504 climbers during the autumn season. The body of a famed US extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain was recovered yesterday and transported to Nepal's capital. Rescuers searching by helicopter located Nelson's body yesterday after failing to find her on Tuesday and Monday, when bad weather hampered their search.

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Colorado mountaineer Hilaree Nelson dies after falling off Mount ... (Colorado Public Radio)

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.

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Body of missing US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson found in Nepal (Aljazeera.com)

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.

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Extreme skiing community gutted by Hilaree Nelson's death in ... (The Washington Post)

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.

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Jim Morrison on seeing partner Hilaree Nelson fall to her death: 'I ... (EL PAÍS in English)

The fellow mountaineer details the frantic 48 hours between her disappearance and the discovery of her remains on Nepal's Manaslu.

My loss is indescribable and I am focused on her children and their steps forward. [@capt_surendra](https://www.instagram.com/capt_surendra/) an incredibly skilled pilot we were able to land at 22,000 feet and search for her,” he recounted. Morrison joined the rescue team on Tuesday and Wednesday, when he discovered her remains. Morrison, who witnessed what happened, described the events leading up to her death: “On September 26th at 10:42 am we reached the true summit of Manaslu in tough conditions. [rescue teams in the Nepalese Himalayas](https://english.elpais.com/sports/2022-09-21/historic-mountain-hut-falls-from-its-alpine-perch.html) on Wednesday morning. “There are no words to describe the love for this woman, my life partner, my lover, my best friend, and my mountain partner.

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