Elizabeth Hawley,journalist Dahal felicitated by HRA
By TBN reporter
Kathmandu: The Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA) honoured Elizabeth Hawley for her five decades of contribution to promote mountain tourism in Nepal.
Likewise, journalist Ballava Mani Dahal, Associate Editor of The Rising Nepal, was honoured with HRA PP Prasai Outstanding Journalism Award for his contribution to promote tourism through media. HRA Journalism Award carries a purse of Rs. 25000 along with felicitation.
Secretary at Ministry of Culture, Tourism and and Civil Aviation Yajna Prasad Gautam presented the awards to Hawley and Dahal during the 38th Annual General Meeting of HRA here on August 24, 2012.
Miss Hawley, born in Chicago, USA on November 9, 1923, has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of the Nepalese mountaineering sector as well as the establishment and development of the Himalayan Rescue Association Nepal (HRA) during her five-plus decades of stay in Kathmandu. She is one of the founding members of the HRA.
Besides a correspondent of Reuters News Agency, she worked as the executive officer at the Himalayan Trust founded by renowned mountaineer late Edmund Hillary and was also entrusted with the responsibility as the honorary consul for New Zealand for about two decades.
On the occasion,Chairman of HRA Santa Subba,founding Chairman Tek Chandra Pokharel,IPP of HRA Bikram Neupane,vice-chairman Narendra Dev Bhatta, HRA Chief Executive Prakash Adhikari highlighted on different aspects of the Himalayan Rescue Association.
Earlier, Chairman Santa Subba, addressing the 38th Annual General Meeting, shed light on plans and projects of the association.
On behalf of the Executive Committee of HRA, Secretary General Kumar Ranabhat presented the annual progress report and Treasurer Prithbi Shrestha presented the annual budget for the year 2069/2070.
The Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA) is a voluntary non-profit organization formed in 1973 with an objective to reduce casualties in the Nepal Himalayas, especially keeping in view the increasing number of Nepalese and foreigners who trek up into the remote wilderness.
