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Sport in brief: September 28, 2022
Scotland's Jack Hendry (centre) celebrates scoring their side's first goal of the game during the UEFA Nations League Group E Match at Hampden Park, Edinburgh. Picture date: Saturday September 24, 2022.

SKING: The body of a famed US extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain was recovered today and transported to Nepal's capital.

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 26,775-foot summit of Mount Manaslu with her partner on Monday when she fell off the mountain.

Her body was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu where doctors planned to perform an autopsy.

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