The Everest Chronicler
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Celebrating Mountain Culture: Selections from The Banff Mountain Film Festival and Banff Mountain Book Festival
Length: 14:37
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Bernadette McDonald has written a gripping biography of Elizabeth Hawley, an American women who moved to Nepal in the 1960 after years of solo travel in remote places. On her own in Nepal for more than four decades, Hawley is renowned as the unofficial chronicler of Himalayan expedition climbing. Despite never having visited Everest herself, her detailed chronicles are so precise that all incoming expeditions meet with her prior to their departure for base camp. Susan Johnston interviewed McDonald at the book's launch, part of the Banff Mountain Book Festival.
McDonald's book is based on extensive interviews with Hawley, celebrated mountaineers, and Kathmandu intimates. It follows the development of Himalayan mountaineering and Nepal?s entry into the twentieth century.
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Bernadette McDonald has written a gripping biography of Elizabeth Hawley, an American women who moved to Nepal in the 1960 after years of solo travel in remote places. On her own in Nepal for more than four decades, Hawley is renowned as the unofficial chronicler of Himalayan expedition climbing. Despite never having visited Everest herself, her detailed chronicles are so precise that all incoming expeditions meet with her prior to their departure for base camp. Susan Johnston interviewed McDonald at the book's launch, part of the Banff Mountain Book Festival. McDonald's book is based on extensive interviews with Hawley, celebrated mountaineers, and Kathmandu intimates. It follows the development of Himalayan mountaineering and Nepal?s entry into the twentieth century.
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