---
name: "Hilaree Nelson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hilaree-nelson"
fi1m_id: "hilaree-nelson"
imdb_id: "nm6965132"
tmdb_id: 2523559
wikidata_id: "Q96970308"
roles: []
born: "13 December 1972"
died: "26 September 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-28T16:05:10.647499+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hilaree Nelson

## Identity

Hilaree Nelson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hilaree-nelson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hilaree-nelson
- **IMDb ID:** nm6965132
- **TMDB ID:** 2523559
- **Wikidata ID:** Q96970308
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilaree_Nelson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96970308, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6965132/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2523559

Actor. Born 13 December 1972 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Died 26 September 2022.

## Details

- **Born:** 13 December 1972, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Died:** 26 September 2022
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilaree_Nelson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96970308, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6965132/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2523559

## Biography

Hilaree Nelson (13 December 1972 – 26 September 2022) was an American ski mountaineer. She was the first woman to summit Everest and Lhotse in a single 24-hour push in 2012, and with partner Jim Morrison made the first ski descent of the Lhotse Couloir in 2018.

Nelson appeared as herself in the documentaries *Girl Climber* (2025) and *Everest: The Other Side* (2026). She was named one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year in 2018 and one of the 25 Most Adventurous Women of the Past 25 Years by Men’s Journal. She served as captain of The North Face global athlete team.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, nytimes.com, nationalgeographic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Everest: The Other Side* (2026), Fi1m 58, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/everest-the-other-side.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Girl Climber* (2025), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Hilaree Nelson](https://film.one/media/person/3676841/gallery-7cba35aade20.jpg) Hilaree Nelson — World Economic Forum, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Hilaree_Nelson_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hilaree Nelson](https://film.one/media/person/3676841/gallery-a94c69ca8363.jpg) Hilaree Nelson — Image via TMDB

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/hilaree-nelson