She had been chronicling hiking expeditions on the Himalayas for over 50 years and died in Nepal at the ripe old age of 94.
Ms Hawley was born in 1923 in Chicago, and graduated from the University of MI in 1946. An absolute institution in the mountaineering world, Miss Hawley was highly respected by the global climbing community - at times feared even - for her meticulous recording of the successes and failures at high altitudes. She died in a hospital at Kathmandu today, a week after catching a lung infection.
Until a year ago, she drove her Volkwagen Beetle along the narrow streets of Kathmandu to interview climbers and tourism officials.
She produced Himalayan Database, a compilation of records for expeditions that have climbed in the Himalayas.
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Always ahead of her time, in 1991 together with Richard Salsbury the "Grand Dame of the Himalayas" began transferring her handwritten archives onto computer and, in doing so, she created the Himalayan Database. Mountaineers have been expressing their sadness at her demise on Twitter.
She attended university in MI and promptly moved to Manhattan after graduation in 1946, landing a job as a researcher with Fortune magazine. She gave up her job as a researcher for Fortune magazine in NY after she visited Nepal on a round-the-world trip. She later started working for Reuters news agency covering mountaineering news and covered the first United States expedition in 1963.
The database consists of 9,500 expeditions to 455 peaks in Nepal by 70,000 people.
The American military attache offered her access to secret radio communication between Everest base camp and the embassy, enabling her to be the first to file when they reached the summit. A mountain in north-west Nepal, bordering Tibet, was named Peak Hawley in her honour in 2014. "It might be the same thing", Hawley said in her book "The Nepal Scene", a collection of monthly dispatches she wrote until 2007.
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