Tag: Nepal
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Fast-rising Colorado mountain runner sets records across Himalayas
Alongside a few fellow American mountaineers, Chris Fisher recently celebrated his 29th birthday in an Irish pub perched high amid the Himalayas. This was no occasion for contemplating the future, the confines of time. And yet there Fisher was nights later, contemplating just that. The young Coloradan was near the end of a record-setting odyssey…
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Colorado mountaineer Hilaree Nelson, a Colorado College graduate, dies after falling off Mount Manaslu in Nepal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier Hilaree Nelson, a Colorado College graduate who went missing this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain, was recovered Wednesday and transported to Nepal’s capital. The boundless Hilaree Nelson, Colorado’s record-setting ski…