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<\/a>Liz Hawley and Her Trusty VW (Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n
I met Liz in 1979 on my first<\/a> Himalayan Expedition and she wanted to know everything about what happened. \u00c2\u00a0Since then, I met her dozens and dozens of times in Kathmandu, as I traveled back and forth to Nepal over the years with our climbing teams.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever the journalist, Liz was all business in terms of recording expedition details.\u00c2\u00a0 When that was done, though, we appreciated that she would open up a bit and allow some talk of the other mountaineering issues of the day.\u00c2\u00a0 I was always relieved to know that somebody was paying attention to what climbers were doing, and claiming to be doing.\u00c2\u00a0 Facts matter, and Liz was all about the facts.\u00c2\u00a0 Nowadays when everyone is their own reporter and they can tell any story they want on the internet, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to know that the legacy of truthful reporting that Liz put in place continues.\u00c2\u00a0 Best wishes to Billi Bierling, Richard Salisbury, Jeevan Shrestha, and Rodolphe Popier for all the great work they have done bringing Liz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Himalayan Database to the world.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0From the old days of paper forms and tables completed in pencil, the Himalayan Database<\/a> now accessible online.\u00c2\u00a0 It was her life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work and she lived to see it come full circle. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll miss her.<\/p>\n Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 26th, 2018 I met Liz in 1979 on my first Himalayan Expedition and she wanted to know everything about what happened. \u00c2\u00a0Since then, I met her dozens and dozens of times in Kathmandu, as I traveled back and forth to Nepal over the years with our climbing teams.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever the journalist, Liz was all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18745,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions\/18745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}