What is Elizabeth Hawley?
[[Image:Miss Hawley.JPG|thumb|Elizabeth Hawley, 15 November 2011, Kathmandu, Nepal]] '''Elizabeth Hawley''' (November 9, 1923 – January 26, 2018) was an [[United States|American]] [[journalist]] and chronicler of [[Himalaya]]n expeditions. Hawley was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. She was studied at the [[University of Michigan]]. She moved to Nepal after giving up her job as a researcher for ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine in New York and visiting [[Kathmandu]] on a round-the-world trip. She found work with the [[Reuters]] news agency covering mountaineering news, including the 1963 American expedition that was the first from the United States to traverse [[Mount Everest]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Jolly |first=Joanna |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10268549 |title=Elizabeth Hawley, unrivalled Himalayan record keeper|publisher=BBC News |date=28 August 2010 |access-date=2014-03-21}}</ref> Hawley died on 26 January 2018 at the age of 94.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Sherlock Holmes' of Nepal's Himalayas dies at 94 |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/-sherlock-holmes--of-nepal-s-himalayas-dies-at-94-9899052 |access-date=2018-01-26 |archive-date=2018-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127004402/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/-sherlock-holmes--of-nepal-s-himalayas-dies-at-94-9899052 |url-status=dead }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawley, Elizabeth}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Journalists from Chicago]] {{bio-stub}}