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Famed American extreme skier Hilaree Nelson found dead after falling from world's eighth-highest mountain in Nepal

Famed American extreme skier Hilaree Nelson found dead after falling from world's eighth-highest mountain in Nepal

Famed American extreme skier Hilaree Nelson found dead after falling from world's eighth-highest mountain in Nepal
Sep 28, 2022 40 secs

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 8,163-meter summit of Mount Manaslu with her partner, Jim Morrison, on Monday when she fell off the mountain.

Nelson, from Telluride, Colorado, and Morrison, from Tahoe, California, are extreme skiers who reached the summit of Mount Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain, in 2018.

Most are climbing Mount Manaslu.

In 2012, she became the first woman to summit the highest mountain in the world, Everest, and its adjacent Lhotse within 24 hours.

Six years later, she returned to Lhotse and made the first ski descent of the mountain, which earned her the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award.

In 2019,  CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford met Nelson and Morrison on the peaks of the San Juan Mountains, some of America's highest at 12,000 feet, where Nelson and Morrison showed their training grounds.

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