Elizabeth Hawley

journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions (1923–2018) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elizabeth Hawley
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Elizabeth Hawley (November 9, 1923 – January 26, 2018) was an American journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions. Hawley was born in Chicago, Illinois.

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Elizabeth Hawley, 15 November 2011, Kathmandu, Nepal

She was studied at the University of Michigan. She moved to Nepal after giving up her job as a researcher for Fortune magazine in New York and visiting Kathmandu on a round-the-world trip.

She found work with the Reuters news agency covering mountaineering news, including the 1963 American expedition that was the first from the United States to traverse Mount Everest.[1]

Hawley died on 26 January 2018 at the age of 94.[2]

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