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Famed American ski mountaineer missing in Nepal mountain
NY Post ^

Posted on 09/27/2022 9:40:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 26,775 feet summit with her partner Jim Morrison when she fell off the mountain...

Bad weather hampered rescue efforts Monday. But visibility was good in improved weather conditions Tuesday while a helicopter was hovering over the mountain to see any signs of the missing climber...

Nelson, from Telluride, Colorado, and Morrison, from Tahoe, California, are extreme skiers who summited Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest peak, in 2018.

Nepal’s government has issued permits to 504 climbers to attempt to scale high mountain peaks during the autumn season. Most of them are on Mount Manaslu.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: edmund; everest; hilaree; hilareenelson; hillary; himalayas; india; mountain; nelson; nepal; norgay; telluride; tenzing
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1 posted on 09/27/2022 9:40:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 26,775 feet summit with her partner Jim Morrison when she fell off the mountain...

Opened a new Door?...................

2 posted on 09/27/2022 9:43:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BenLurkin

I recall being told that mountain climbing will seriously injure or kill you or it will seriously injure or kill someone else you know who is also into mountain climbing.


3 posted on 09/27/2022 9:47:42 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: BenLurkin
Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 26,775 feet summit with her partner Jim Morrison when she fell off the mountain...

Now Hillary Clinton will claim she was named for her, instead of Sir Edmund Hillary.

4 posted on 09/27/2022 9:51:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Sounds like a dangerous hobby …


5 posted on 09/27/2022 9:55:45 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: OttawaFreeper

While I enjoy a mixed alpine climb, skiing back down is nuts.


6 posted on 09/27/2022 9:57:06 AM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: BenLurkin

Was she named after Edmund Hillary just like Hillary Clinton? Even though Edmund Hillary was unknown and obscure until he climbed Mount Everest 4 years after Hillary Clinton was born?


7 posted on 09/27/2022 10:00:03 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: BenLurkin

I knew Jim Morrison was still alive!


8 posted on 09/27/2022 10:16:33 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger
Should've changed her name to Hilawheeeee...
9 posted on 09/27/2022 10:38:01 AM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

😜.............................


10 posted on 09/27/2022 10:39:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BenLurkin

Plenty of backcountry skiing where you aren’t sucking for O2 and a fall doesn’t me buh bye forever. But if choosing the non-fun version is your thing, happy landings.


11 posted on 09/27/2022 10:42:35 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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But visibility was good in improved weather conditions Tuesday while a helicopter was hovering over the mountain to see any signs of the missing climber...

A helicopter has some serious effects with the harmonic downbeat of its blades. Just having a helicopter in the area can cause small avalanches and keep snow banks unstable.

Back when Arlington TX hosted the Stupor Bowl, a news helicopter was in the area of the stadium and suddenly sheets of ice and snow cascaded off the top of JerryWorld. One halftime show worker was seriously injured by the snow falling from the stadium roof, and so was a news photographer.

Hope that she can be found alive.

12 posted on 09/27/2022 10:49:24 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: BenLurkin
Play stupid games; Win stupid prizes. Darwin does his thing.

13 posted on 09/27/2022 10:50:12 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“. . . The first man on Everest was Tenzing Norgay, not Sir Edmund Hillary. . . .”

— “The Wonder That Was India” by Maxwell Pereira, The Indian Express, Tuesday, June 22, 1999.


14 posted on 09/27/2022 10:53:30 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: BenLurkin

How did he get inside the mountain?

Did he have a car that could cross into the 10th dimension like Buckaroo Banzai?


15 posted on 09/27/2022 10:57:57 AM PDT by Boogieman
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If so, this would be the 2nd suspicious death he was associated with. He also hiked out into the desert in California with some friends (before he formed the Doors) to take peyote. One of them never hiked back out.


16 posted on 09/27/2022 11:00:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

How is she missing “in” a mountain?


17 posted on 09/27/2022 11:01:02 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind
How is she missing “in” a mountain?

mountain

18 posted on 09/27/2022 11:06:04 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man.)
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To: Red Badger

‘Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 26,775 feet summit with her partner Jim Morrison when she fell off the mountain...’

this is the end, my only friend, the end...


19 posted on 09/27/2022 12:42:56 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

Break on through to the other side.......................


20 posted on 09/27/2022 12:46:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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