Four years later, she and Morrison became the first to ski down from the 27,940-foot summit of Lhotse. She wrote in 2019 about the difficulties of balancing her mountaineering career with motherhood.

Buddhist monks perform rituals during the funeral of famed American extreme skier Hilaree Nelson in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. Niranjan Shrestha / AP The skier disappeared on Sept. 26.

Nicholas Vizzini, 29, and his climbing partner triggered the avalanche as they were descending a slope, the National Park ...

SEATTLE — Seattle-born extreme skier Hilaree Nelson will be remembered by the mountaineering community as a fearless athlete and an inspiration to many. Nelson, 49, went missing Monday while ...

America's highest mountain has seen its second death in only six days as climbing season reaches its peak in Alaska. The ...

After winning a sponsorship from Grand Butte Hotel where she worked as a waitress in 1993, a 23-year-old Rigby entered the U.S. Extreme Skiing Championships — “as sort of a joke,” she told ...

French prosecutors have opened an enquiry into the death of a British skier on a notorious black run in the French Alps. The 62-year-old woman was involved in “an extremely fast and violent ...

Colorado ski movies range wildly from the classic "Downhill Racer" to "Copper Mountain" and "Dumb and Dumber" but also include "Aspen Extreme," and "Avalanche" ...