![]() She continued to do this into her 90s, but as more people came to Nepal to climb, she began to take on staff and helpers, both local and international. Miss Hawley would meet and interview climbers herself. ![]() Elizabeth Hawley interviews climbers at their hotel in Kathmandu after their expedition (Photo: John Fera) She became obsessed with cataloguing the details of mountaineering expeditions, including the names of climbers and their Sherpas the names, heights and locations of peaks and details of the climb, such as where people camped and the precise time that they reached the summit. Miss Hawley moved to Kathmandu in 1959 as a reporter for Reuters and remained there for the rest of her life (I wouldn’t normally use the title ‘Miss’, but I understand that’s what she preferred). It is based on the archive of the American journalist Elizabeth Hawley, who died in January at the age of 94. ![]() The Himalayan Database is a comprehensive record of all expeditions to peaks in Nepal over 7,000m since 1905. ![]() A couple of weekends ago, I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: install the Himalayan Database on my computer and play around with it. ![]()
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