 Her article on the death of the Nepalese prime minister made the front page of the "New York Times".She socialized regularly with royalty and senior politicians in Nepal, on whom she reported for US media.While she never climbed a mountain herself, Hawley was the best-known chronicler of Nepalese Himalayan expeditions from the 1960s onwards (she did not chronicle the Karakoram Himalaya such as K2 or Nanga Parbat), and was respected by the international mountaineering community because of the accuracy of her records, and the tenacity of her investigations; winning her the nickname "The Sherlock Holmes of the Mountaineering World".