American journalist Elizabeth Hawley, known for chronicling expeditions to Himalayan peaks, died at a hospital in Kathmandu on Friday. She was 94. Hawley was considered a “leading authority” on Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, despite never having reached its base camp, a BBC report said.

Hawley died of complications arising from pneumonia, days after she was admitted to the CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Centre, Reuters reported, quoting Prathiva Pandey, a doctor at the hospital.  Click here to read more.

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