Hawley was known as an author­itativ­e voice on Himala­yan mounta­ineeri­ng after moving to Nepal in 1959 as a journa­listKATHMANDU: American journalist Elizabeth Hawley, whose 50 years chronicling summits and tragedies in the Himalayas earned her the moniker “the Sherlock Holmes of the mountaineering world”, died Friday aged 94. “She had a very peaceful death,” doctor Prativa Pandey said, who looked after Hawley at the end of her life. She passed away at a hospital in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu in the early hours of Friday, a week after falling ill with a lung infection. Hawley founded the Himalayan Database, a meticulous archive of all mountaineering expeditions in Nepal that she managed until five years ago. “The mountaineering world today has lost of its most important pillars.

Source: The Express Tribune January 26, 2018 14:03 UTC