A Manhattan woman died while hiking alone in the subzero temperatures and 100-mph winds of the New Hampshire mountains.
Kate Matrosova, 32, was found dead on Monday, apparently from exposure, a day after she went missing in the White Mountains.
Matrosova, who was born in Siberia, was found between Mount Madison and Mount Adams, in a series of summits called the Presidential Range.
The adventurous young woman worked in credit trading at the banking firm BNP Paribas in Midtown, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Her husband, a vice president for JPMorgan Chase, dropped her off early Sunday at the base of the mountains, where she planned to hike Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast.
By Sunday afternoon, Matrosova had activated an emergency beacon that sent her coordinates to rescuers.
But search crews had trouble finding her.
“Unfortunately, a lot of the coordinates that we received over the night were all over the place within a mile circumference,” Lt. Jim Goss of the state’s Fish and Game Department told WMUR-TV.
Overnight temperatures plummeted to 30 degrees below zero and the winds were gusting at more than 100 mph.
“There’s just no room for error in a place like that.”
Photographs of the ambitious climber posted on social media show her braving the elements in rugged terrain around the world, including frigid tundras.
One picture posted in July 2013 shows the famous sign at Uhuru Peak on Mount Kilimanjaro.
“Congratulations! You are now at Uhuru Peak, Tanzania. Africa’s Highest Point,” the sign reads.
In her picture, it is draped with a T-shirt from the West Palm Beach Judo Academy in Florida, where Matrosova lived before she moved to New York.
With Post Wires