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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 25, 2018 - 10:31pm PT
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Liz Hawley, known to all Himalayan climbers and many others for her Himalayan Database has passed away in Kathmandu on January 25. She was 94 years old.
For those who don't know her:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hawley
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 25, 2018 - 11:18pm PT
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an Icon!
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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Jan 25, 2018 - 11:27pm PT
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Sad to hear of her passing. She was an interesting lady.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Jan 25, 2018 - 11:28pm PT
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It's not very often that one person becomes so influential in an area that interests people around the world. I can't think of anyone else who has played a similar role in any activity.
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kief
Trad climber
east side
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Jan 26, 2018 - 12:07am PT
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Liz was an unforgettable character. I first met her at the Shanker Hotel in KDU in 1975, when she was looking for Riccardo Cassin to get the scoop on his expedition’s failed attempt on the south face of Lhotse. She was quite indignant that Reinhold Messner had apparently stood her up earlier that day and meant to give Cassin a piece of her mind.
He lived to 100. Liz came close. Strange to think that both of them are gone now. RIP to yet another legend.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Jan 26, 2018 - 06:33am PT
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I only knew of her from stories of her chronicling, but thought she must be one hell of an interesting person.
94 is a long time, and I would expect by then a person would have overcome the denial of addressing the fact they won't live forever. I hope her passing was gentle, with memories of adventures past leading her forward to the one just ahead.
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Stewart Johnson
Mountain climber
lake forest
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Jan 26, 2018 - 06:39am PT
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rest in peace to the amazing ms. Hawley...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 26, 2018 - 08:35am PT
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Methinks there’s more to her story than I gleaned from that Wiki article. People who just
up and move to strange and wonderful places have my undivided admiration.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 26, 2018 - 08:48am PT
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As Tammi said. Saw a movie about her a number of years back--
she was the real deal.
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Adventurer
Mountain climber
Virginia
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Jan 26, 2018 - 12:35pm PT
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A life well lived by any measure.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jan 26, 2018 - 01:48pm PT
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photo courtesy of M Boni
seeyousoonenough
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Jan 26, 2018 - 03:49pm PT
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Amazing woman.
RIP
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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Jan 28, 2018 - 06:13pm PT
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Elizabeth Hawley was born in Chicago in 1923 and in 1960 ended up in Kathmandu, Nepal working as a journalist for Time Magazine. She also did work with the Reuters News Agency, reporting on the 1963 American expedition to Mount Everest and eventually became Reuters’ mountaineering correspondent. She’s been in Kathmandu ever since and through the decades has become the most respected, and sometimes feared, chronicler of Himalayan climbing. Hawley has interviewed the majority of climbers who’ve done ascents of Nepali/Tibetan peaks since she arrived (she doesn’t bother with the western range, Pakistan/China). Parts historian, archivist, and librarian she is Authenticator Supreme and if you summited, and you want anyone to know about it, you’ll want her to know about it.
I was in Nepal in 2016 photographing two Sherpas for my climbing book but couldn’t pass up the opportunity to drop by and pay her a visit. I photographed her in Kathmandu, in the same apartment she’d been living in for 57 years.
Photo © Jim Herrington
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 28, 2018 - 09:58pm PT
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hey there say, jan... thank you so much for sharing...
my condolences to her family and loved ones...
we learn a lot here, with these shares...
and, can offer prayer support, as well...
thanks again...
many of these folks, are all new to me...
and, i am glad to learn of them...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2018 - 10:55pm PT
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Liz Hawley was appreciated in the Nepalese community also. I did not know until I read the following article that she had been made an honorary citizen of Nepal.
The photo below shows three of myfriends from Rolwaling visiting her to make sure that the three 6,000 meter peaks they intended to climb were first ascents - and to register them with her when they returned successfully.The personal story of Tashi Sherpa on the right, will be published in the February issue of The Alpinist. In it, he describes their brief encounter and her helpfulness to them.
https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/breaking-chronicler-of-himalayan-expeditions-elizabeth-hawley-passes-away/
The Himalayan Times > Nepal >
Chronicler of Himalayan expeditions Elizabeth Hawley passes away
Published: January 26, 2018 10:35 am On: Nepal
RAJAN POKHREL
KATHMANDU: Elizabeth Hawley, chronicler of Himalayan expeditions, died of pneumonia early Friday morning, according to the officials in the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation. She was 95.
Ministry official Gyanendra Kumar Shrestha informed, Hawley, the founder of the Himalayan Database, breathed her last at the CIWEC Hospital — a travel medicine centre to treat foreign diplomats and aid workers in Nepal — at around 3:00 am today. She was admitted to the hospital a week before.
Miss Hawley, who first arrived Kathmandu in February 1958, made Nepal her second home. The government has also conferred honorary Nepali citizenship on Hawley.
French ice climber Francois Damilano named a peak in Nepal after Elizabeth Hawley. Damilano made a solo first ascent of Peak Hawley (6,182 metres) in the Dhaulagiri Mountain Range on May 9, 2008, after climbing 7,242-metre Putha Hiunchuli.
Jeevan Shrestha, who worked closely with Hawley for the Himalayan Database said that her family members and relatives in the United States have been informed of her demise. It is yet to be decided whether or not to send her body to the US, informed Shrestha.
Journalist and German climber Billi Bierling, who had worked with Liz Hawley since 2004, is arriving Nepal from Germany later today.
Billi wrote on her Facebook page, “I am very saddened to announce that after a short battle in hospital, Elizabeth Hawley has left us. Personally, I cannot put it into words how much this amazing woman has meant to me, how much she has taught me and how much I will miss her in my life.”
“Thanks Miss Hawley for having shared so much of your life with me, for allowing me to get to know you so well and to become your friend. I treasure all the moments we spent together — even the ones when I irritated you for not spelling a name correctly or being too late for our meeting…or having badly brushed hair! I feel very privileged to have spent all that time with you.”
“We will try and keep up Miss Hawley’s work but of course today the Himalayan climbing world has lost one of its most important pillars. You will be missed, Miss Hawley.”
“The people that have inspired me most in my life all exhibit an uncanny alignment of place and purpose – almost creating their own gravity and momentum through a deep power of vision and focus. I’m just trying to adequately describe why Ms. Hawley was so extraordinary. And, of course, failing,” Ben Ayers, country director for dZi Foundation Nepal, described.
She changed Himalayan Mountaineering entirely without ever setting foot on a glaciated peak, he shared on his Facebook page, adding that she found her purpose here in Nepal and followed it to the very end. “She changed the world as I know it. She did a tremendous amount of good.”
Her example has always helped me think about how to be useful in Nepal while being true to myself – in this vein, she was unique, he said.
“I trust she’s off schooling young journalists in the bardo somewhere, riding her ample karma towards her next adventure.”
Born in 1923 and educated at the University of Michigan, Elizabeth Hawley had been living in Kathmandu ever since her second visit to Nepal in 1960. She had been working with the Reuters news agency covering mountaineering news, including the 1963 American expedition that was the first from the US to traverse Mount Everest.
For many years, until August, 2010, she was also New Zealand’s honorary consul in Nepal.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Jan 29, 2018 - 07:10am PT
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Jim Herrington,
A really great photo!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jan 29, 2018 - 02:05pm PT
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Sorry to hear this sounds like she was a great lady and a giant in the climbing field.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jan 29, 2018 - 05:10pm PT
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She was an anomaly to be grateful for in an over-examined world. A strange and appropriate career for a journalist and a good example to other people.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 29, 2018 - 05:36pm PT
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I find her fascination with something she never partook in oddly wonderful.
It’s like I became a historian of curling, or parcheesi.
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