 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.In 1960 she started as a journalist and correspondent for "Time", but later moved to the "Reuters" news agency in 1962.She covered the 1963 American Everest expedition that traversed Mount Everest.