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I'll Call You In Kathmandu: The Elizabeth Hawley Story
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I'll Call You In Kathmandu: The Elizabeth Hawley Story

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Defying conventions of her era, Elizabeth Hawley spent more than four decades in Nepal chronicling Himalayan expedition climbing.

  • Author: Bernadette McDonald
  • Hardcover; 256 pages; black-and-white photo section
  • Based on extensive interviews with Hawley, celebrated mountaineers, Kathmandu intimates, and Hawley's meticulous personal records and correspondence
  • Follows the development of Himalayan mountaineering and Nepal's entry into the twentieth century
  • Details friendships with famed climbers Hillary, Messner, Bonington, Humar, Viesturs, and more
  • Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary, who considers Hawley his closest link in Nepal

One of the most important figures in Himalayan climbing may be someone who has never been to Everest Base Camp, and is not a climber. In 1960, a young American woman, Elizabeth Hawley, moved to Nepal as a reporter for Time Inc. Initially sending home political dispatches from the kingdom, it wasn't long before Hawley's pen found its niche: mountaineering in the world's highest places. She quickly became part of the Kathmandu scene, socializing regularly with an eclectic group of adventurers, climbers, royalty, politicians and entrepreneurs. Hawley is still in Kathmandu today and has been the unofficial chronicler of every detail of every expedition mounted from Nepal in the Himalaya for more than four decades.

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        After hearing her name mentioned in a few other mountaineering books I was currious. It turned out to be a pretty good biography. The author dials in on several very well known climbers and their adventures.

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