Nelson was skiing down Manaslu after having successfully summited the world’s eighth-highest mountain with her partner Jim Morrison on Monday. theSun theSundaily Nepal Himalayas hiking missing mountaineer avalanche
: Renowned US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson has gone missing on Nepal’s Manaslu mountain, on the same day that an avalanche killed a Nepali climber on the same peak, expedition organisers and officials said Tuesday.
On the same day, an avalanche hit between Camps 3 and 4 on the 8,163-metre mountain, killing a Nepali climber and injuring a dozen others, the government’s tourism department said.Constant rain and snow have been a challenge for the 404 paying climbers attempting to reach the summit of Manaslu this year, and bad weather was also hampering rescue efforts, with helicopters unable to fly on Monday due to the conditions.
“I haven’t felt as sure-footed on Manaslu as I have on past adventure into the thin atmosphere of the high Himalaya,“ Nelson said in an Instagram post on Thursday.The 49-year-old has had a career spanning two decades and is described as “the most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation” in a profile on The North Face’s website.