Captain of international team The North Face, disappeared Monday while skiing with her partner, Jim Morrison
American mountaineer Hilaree Nelson (49), the first woman to reach the top of two eight thousand, Everest and Lhotse in 24 hours, was found dead on Wednesday, two days after disappearing in Manaslu (8163 meters), the eighth highest mountain in the world , located in Nepal. Hilaree Nelson was returning to base camp on a ski run after a “successful summit” at Manaslu with her partner, Jim Morrison, when she fell through a fissure about 25 meters deep. His partner was the one who led the rescue operations in a helicopter on Wednesday to try to find Hilaree Nelson’s body.
Hilaree Nelson is considered one of the best mountaineers and skiers in the world and in 2018, after completing the first ski run from Manaslu, was awarded the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award. But last Thursday, just four days before her fatal accident on the same mountain, she found out on her social networks that she was not “as safe” on Manaslu as on previous expeditions. On the same day of his disappearance, an avalanche hitting camps 3 and 4 of the Manaslu killed a Nepalese guide and injured a dozen other people.
Hilaree Nelson’s lifeless body was found on a hill some 6,000 meters above sea level. The famous North American mountaineer, captain of the international team The North Face, started her sports career in alpine skiing, but left this mountain-driven discipline. After linking Everest and Lhotse in 2012, she and her partner were also the first to ski Lhotse (8,516m) six years later. Ten years ago, an avalanche that destroyed Camps 2 and 3 also mourned Manaslu, one of the safest ‘eight-thousanders’. Then eleven climbers lost their lives, including the Spaniard Martí Gasull.
Source: La Verdad
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