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Informationen zum Autor Bernadette McDonald is the founding vice-president of Mountain Culture at western Canadas The Banff Centre and author of seven books on international mountaineering, including 'Toma Humar' (Random House UK, 2008) and 'Brotherhood of the Rope' (The Mountaineers Books, 2007). McDonald is the winner of numerous awards, including Italys ITAS Prize for mountain writing (2010), and is a two-time winner of Indias Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature (2008 and 2009). She has also received the Alberta Order of Excellence (2010), the Summit of Excellence Award from The Banff Centre (2007), the King Albert Award for international leadership in the field of mountain culture and environment (2006), and the Queens Golden Jubilee Medal (2002). In 2011, Bernadettes first book with RMB, 'Freedom Climbers', won the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival (Canada), the Boardman Tasker Prize (UK) and the American Alpine Clubs Literary Award. Bernadette divides her time between Naramata, British Columbia, and Banff, Alberta. Klappentext Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States itself to travel the world, and thus began her lifelong attraction to the exotic and remote sovereign state of Nepal. In the years that followed, she began reporting on the political and cultural events taking place in her adopted homeland for the likes of Reuters and Time Inc., letting the world in on the strange community of mountaineers, pilgrims and politicians who were descending on Kathmandu, whether in search of adventure, enlightenment or prestige. Despite the fact that Elizabeth Hawley has never climbed a mountain or visited the hallowed grounds of Everest base camp, she has become the most important record keeper and inspirational authority figure regarding the expeditions, stories, feats, scandals and disasters in the Nepal Himalaya. Now 90 years of age, she has commanded the respect of such legendary personalities as Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner, Chris Bonington, Toma Humar and Ed Viesturs. With production under way on a film examining her life and legacy, it is likely that Hawley will continue to hold a special place in the hearts and minds of all visitors looking to experience the legend and grandeur of the world's most celebrated mountain landscape. ...
