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Keeping Everest Honest

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Elizabeth Hawley, arbiter of Himalayan glory and shame, calls it like she sees it

by Bernadette McDonald

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Published in the November 2006 issue.  » BUY ISSUE     

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Of course, Elizabeth Hawley could herself be described as an armchair critic, albeit a deeply informed and exacting one. But she has planted her own flag in the Himalayan mountains. As Russian climber Anatoli Boukreev said after Hawley challenged his claim to have reached the highest summit of Shishapangma, “I’ve got to go back — Elizabeth said I didn’t really climb it.”

McDonald is the author of Hawley’s biography, I’ll Call You in Kathmandu, and the founder of the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture.

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