Hilaree Nelson : Rescue | Husband | North Face | Age

The body of US mountaineer and extreme skier Hilaree Nelson was recovered on Wednesday by a search and rescue team in the Himalayas.

Hilaree Nelson : Rescue | Husband | North Face | Age

Nelson grew up in Seattle and started skiing at Stevens Pass at the age of three. She was a mother of two sons, and resided in Telluride, Colorado and served as the The North Face Global Athletic Team Captain.

She was a team member on the 2012 Montana State University Everest Education Expedition.

Nelson was a National Geographic Explorers grant recipient, a member of over 40 expeditions, and had first ski descents on Baffin and South Georgia Islands, Argentina, Kamchatka, Russia, and the Tetons.

She was named one of “The 25 Most Adventurous Women of the Past 25 Years” by Men’s Journal, as well as being named as one of National Geographic’s 2018 Adventurers of the Year.

Rescue 

The body of US mountaineer and extreme skier Hilaree Nelson was recovered on Wednesday by a search and rescue team in the Himalayas, the BBC reported.

Nelson, 49, had gone missing on Monday after falling down the peak of the world’s eighth highest peak, Mount Manaslu, per The New York Times.

Nelson had been attempting to ski down the face of the 26,775-foot summit with her climbing partner and husband Jim Morrison when she disappeared, per the Times.

An avalanche swept her off a cliff onto the south face of the mountain, Sachindra Yadav, an expedition liaison officer from the Gorkha district, told the Times.

Earlier reports said she had fallen into a 2,000ft crevasse in a glacier, said the BBC

Nelson, alongside Morrison, was famed for her adventurous climbs. In 2018, they successfully skied down Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain, which straddles Nepal and Tibet, per the Times.

Hilaree Nelson husband 

Hilaree Nelson and Brian O’Neill, her ex-husband, were married for 14 years until their blissful union transformed into a painful memory from which she tried to flee through her passion for mountaineering.

Nelson has visited some of the most remote mountain ranges in the world by fusing her passion for exploration with her love of skiing and mountaineering.

In ski mountaineering, she has accomplished many “firsts,” including linking two 8000-meter peaks in a single push, making the first ski descents on Baffin Island, and making the first ski descent of the world’s fourth-highest mountain, Lhotse.

Nelson left behind her two sons, Frederick Quinn Oneill and Grayden, who were born to her during her first marriage to Brian O’Neill.

Nelson’s current partner, Jim Morrison, is an outstanding athlete who began skiing as a small child alongside his brother John.

Jim reached the top of Mount Everest and Cho Oyu in the Himalayas in May 2018. On both mountains, he skied a total of 11,000 vertical feet, including a 7,000-foot route down Cho Oyu.

Hilaree Nelson North face

Hilaree Nelson, ski mountaineer and an ambassador for The North Face, has died.

According to multiple reports, the body of Nelson, 49, was located by rescuers on the southern slope of Mount Manaslu in Nepal, the eighth highest mountain in the world.

“We are deeply saddened by the death of American adventurer and mountaineer Hilaree Nelson at Manaslu Mountain. We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Nelson. Her spirit and bravery will continue to inspire us,” the embassy wrote via Twitter. 

According to The North Face on Instagram, Nelson reached the true summit of Manaslu on Monday with her climbing and life partner, Jim Morrison.

Morrison shared further details via Instagram.

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.

I skied first and after a few turns Hilaree followed and started a small avalanche. 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’. I did everything I could to locate her but was unable to go down the face as I hoped to find her alive and live my life with her,” he wrote.

Age

Hilaree Nelson was born on 13th December 1972 (Age: 49 years; till death) in Seattle, United States.

Hilaree Nelson
Born	December 13, 1972
Died	September 26, 2022    Mount Manaslu, Nepal
Age	49 years
Occupation	Ski mountaineer

Nelson was a National Geographic Explorers grant recipient, a member of over 40 expeditions, and had first ski descents on Baffin and South Georgia Islands, Argentina, Kamchatka, Russia, and the Tetons.