Elizabeth Hawley (9 November 1923 – 26 January 2018) was an American journalist, author, and chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions.

Hawley's The Himalayan Database became the unofficial record for climbs in the Nepalese Himalaya.

[3][4] Having visited Kathmandu on a round-the-world trip in 1957, Hawley moved to Nepal full-time in 1959, giving up her job as a researcher for Fortune magazine in New York.

[2] Her article on the death of the Nepalese prime minister made the front page of The New York Times.

[1][18][19] She was the honorary consul in Nepal for New Zealand for 20 years up until her retirement in 2010, for which she received the Queen's Service Medal in 2004.