An American climber has been found dead after falling from Nepal’s eighth highest peak.
Her tour company, Shangri-La Nepal Tours, confirmed that Hilary Nelson’s body was recovered by helicopter on the south face of Mount Manaslu on Wednesday morning.
On Monday, the 49-year-old slid down the 26,775-foot (8,163-meter) summit with her partner, Jim Morrison. when she falls.
On Monday and Tuesday, rescuers tried to find her through searches but were unable to find her.
According to the trekking company, Ms Nelson’s body has been taken back to base camp and is being transferred to a hospital in Kathmandu, where an autopsy can be carried out.
Ms Nelson, an extreme skier, and her partner summited Lhotse, the fourth highest peak in the world, in 2018.
Hilary Nelson and her partner Jim Morrison.Image: Associated Press
An avalanche at the lower elevations of Mount Manaslu killed a Nepalese guide early Monday and injured several other climbers.
All climbers involved in the incident were identified and some injured were flown to Kathmandu for treatment.
After landing from the helicopter, Pute Sherpa, one of the avalanche survivors, said: “I’m not sure about the whereabouts of the missing climber, but her husband was with us during the search today. We made two helicopter rescue attempts. , but we couldn’t find her.”
Two Nepali Sherpa guides taken to treatment after an avalanche on Manaslu on Monday
Shan ‘tested her resilience in new ways’
In her last Instagram post last week, Ms Nelson described the difficulties she encountered and felt “not as grounded on Manaslu as I used to be on adventures in the thin Himalayas” .
“The past few weeks have tested my resilience in new ways,” she wrote.
“The constant rainy season and wet monsoon made me homesick. I was challenged to find peace and inspiration from the mountains when it was shrouded in mist all the time.”
Hundreds of climbers and their local guides are trying to summit Manaslu during Nepal’s autumn climbing season.
The government has issued permits to 504 climbers to climb the peak in the fall. Most of them are on Mount Manaslu.