Celebrated American Ski Mountaineer Missing on World’s 8th Highest Mountain
A renowned American ski mountaineer has gone missing on Mount Manaslu in Nepal on Sept. 26, the same day an avalanche swept several climbers, killing at least one climber and injuring a dozen more.
Hilaree Nelson, 49, successfully summited the world’s eighth-highest mountain with her partner, Jim Morrison, on Monday and was skiing down from the peak when she got into an accident, according to the organizer of the expedition.
“She had an accident yesterday as she was descending shortly after her summit. We are trying to get clarity on what happened,” Jiban Ghimire of Shangri-La Nepal Treks told news agency AFP on Tuesday….