A world-renowned and highly experienced American ski mountaineer is missing after plunging off the side of a mountain in Nepal's Himalayas.
Hilaree Nelson, 49, descended from the 27,000ft Manaslu mountain on skis on Monday when she crashed just below the summit.
“The duo reached the true summit of Manaslu at 11.30am local time and about 15 minutes later I got a call from our staff at Base Camp that her ski blade skidded off and [she] fell off the other side of the peak,” Jiban Ghimire, managing director of Shangri-La Nepal Trek, the guiding company that was working with Nelson told Outside Magazine.
