ed. desnivel Miss Hawley. La guardiana de las montañas
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The history of Himalayism has been built thanks to the figure of Elizabeth Hawley, a woman ahead of her time who, although she never climbed a mountain or ever set foot on Everest base camp, became the most important and most important chronicler. influential authority on mountaineering in the Himalayas of Nepal, earning the respect of such legendary figures as Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner, Chris Bonington ... Miss Hawley, as she was known, was in charge of certifying the ascents to the mountains more high above the Earth. His rigorous and exhaustive work of documentation on the expeditions that arrived in Nepal served to earn him the name of the Himalayan Notary Public.An exciting life full of anecdotes - it was said of her that she worked as a spy for the CIA, even that she was a lover of Edmund Hillary - that we can now know in this biography by the prestigious writer Bernadette McDonald, and which she materialized after the numerous interviews that she had with Miss Hawley herself, personalities from her environment and mountaineers from all over the world.
Miss Hawley passed away in 2018 at the age of 94. His life and his legacy have left an indelible mark on the history of Eightomilism, as well as on the hearts and minds of all those fascinated by the world's most famous mountain landscapes.
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