Possible Clues:

• Guide for Hillary
• Elite mountaineer, after French pulled back, bagging Himalayan peak
• High leader?
• Guide's turn of phrase
• High-up employee perhaps upset, parking suspended
• Noted mountaineer, perhaps, disoriented after losing head
• Summit guide
• In spring, woman gets guide to range
• Haggard heroine comes upon first religious Father to be a mountaineer
• Woman's in resort getting help in high places