KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The physique of a famed U.S. excessive skier who went lacking this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and transported to Nepal’s capital.
Hilaree Nelson, 49, was snowboarding down from the 8,163-meter (26,775-foot) summit of Mount Manaslu together with her companion, Jim Morrison, on Monday when she fell off the mountain.
Her physique was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu the place medical doctors deliberate to carry out an post-mortem.
Rescuers looking by helicopter positioned Nelson’s physique on Wednesday after failing to search out her on Tuesday and Monday, when unhealthy climate hampered their search.
Additionally on Monday, an avalanche at a decrease elevation on the identical mountain killed a Nepalese man and injured a number of different climbers.
A whole bunch of climbers and their native guides have been making an attempt to achieve the summit throughout Nepal’s autumn climbing season.
Nelson, from Telluride, Colorado, and Morrison, from Tahoe, California, are excessive skiers who reached the summit of Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest mountain, in 2018.
Nepal’s authorities has issued permits to 504 climbers through the autumn season. Most are climbing Mount Manaslu.
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