The body of renowned ski mountain climber Hilaree Nelson has been found by rescuers on Monday.
Nelson’s body was spotted at the southern slope of Mt Manaslu, two days after she fell off near the peak of the world’s eighth-highest mountain.
Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 8,163-metre summit with her partner Jim Morrison when she fell off the mountain on Monday.
The rescuers had conducted aerial search in chopper, along with Sherpa guides, when they located her dead body on the side of Larke Peak. Jiban Ghimire, managing director of Shangri-La Nepal Trek, the company that organised the expedition, said that the body was retrieved at around 6,000 metres on Wednesday morning.
Nelson reportedly fell into around 25 metres crevasse from just above the fore summit of the mountain when she along with Morrison skied from the real summit and had gone missing, according to eyewitnesses.
“The body has been brought to the base camp and will be airlifted to Kathmandu after completing necessary legal procedures,” Ghimire said.
