 Italian climber Reinhold Messner told "Outside", "If I need information about climbing 8,000-meter peaks, I go to her".Sir Edmund Hillary, one of her closest friends (she was an Executive Officer for Hillary's Himalayan Trust), once called her "a bit of a terror".Hawley's detailed mountaineering records are summarized in "The Himalayan Database", and have been used both as a record of successful ascents, and also of estalishing success rates and fatility rates, for climbers in the Nepal Himalaya.