sanders wrote:Does anybody have an authentication file from the Himalayan Database CD that comes with the Himalayan Database book?...
It turns out that one cannot read Hawley's updates without first pre-installing the Himal Win program requiring that key -
http://bit.ly/16g6eyO and
http://www.himalayandatabase.com/support.html ...
The book itself is very high-level, without any good granularity into what has been happening on specific Nepalese 8000ers nowadays...
I bought the CD a few years ago, and regularly download the updates, never got any trouble doing it. I've just updated the autumn/winter 2011 files, it worked fine. The updates usually come one to one and half year later, after the research/verification process is completed.
At least in the version I have, you need to insert the original CD for authentification during updates. The system also sometimes asks you for an authentification code (usually a word randomly selected from the "user guide" coming with the CD). I guess you can't access the database without the original CD. What you get as free download from the website is just 0.01% of the information available in the database.The database has a detailed record of more than 7,000 expeditions. It contains a quite powerful analysis tool, and you can export the data into excel for further analysis. Might be really useful for the kind of research you are doing.