Hilaree Nelson, who set records and climbed Mount Everest, was skiing down from the 26,781-foot summit of Manaslu in the Nepalese Himalayas with her partner when she fell.
“We are flying to look for her today,” Jiban Ghimire of Kathmandu-based Shangri-La Nepal Trek, which organized and outfitted Nelson’s expedition, said early Wednesday. He said searchers will have more information in a few hours.is billed as the “most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation” by one of her sponsors, North Face.A resident of Telluride, Colo., Nelson grew up in Seattle and spent weekends at Stevens Pass in Washington’s Cascades.
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.
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