Keeper of the Mountains

Keeper of the Mountains is a portrait of Elizabeth Hawley and her unlikely key role in the Golden Age of Himalayan mountaineering her defiance of the traditional gender roles of her day and her decision to settle alone in Kathmandu in 1960 where she has famously lived life on her own terms ever since Hawley 91 and a former journalist maintains the worlds largest and most treasured archive of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions and her work is trusted by news organizations and publications around the globe All this despite never having climbed a mountain herself