Nancy Jackson (climber)

Nancy Jackson (1955 - March 27, 1990) was an American mountain climber.

Jackson was participating in the 1990 American Manaslu Expedition when she was killed in an avalanche with Charles Schertz and sherpa guide, Nima Wangchuk. The accident occurred when the climbers had reached a level of 15,510-feet on Mt. Manaslu and a 400-foot slab avalanche gave way, entirely covering the climbers. They were found buried in the snow March 27 by other team members.

Jackson grew up in Moscow, Idaho, graduating from Moscow High School in 1972. After university studies in engineering she gave up her job at Weyerhaeuser to devote herself full time to climbing. She moved to Federal Way, Washington where she became a mountain guide for Rainier Mountaineering Inc. on Mount Rainier. She climbed Rainier more than 50 times during the 1980s and reached the summits of Denali in Alaska, the highest peak in North America, and Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest peak in South America.

After her death, her hometown congregation at the First Methodist Church (Moscow, Idaho) founded a hand bell choir in her memory. The Nancy Jackson Bell Choir now includes 5 complete octaves of both bells and chimes and two adult, one youth, and one children's bell choir.