article_snippet.sent: clumpy trail shoes and the poorly fitting rucksack Lizzy Hawker had borrowed, then up at the elite Lycra kit of Lizzy Hawker fellow competitors.
article_snippet.sent: Lizzy Hawker would be covering almost the same distance as that between Lizzy Hawker birthplace in the London suburbs and Southampton, where Lizzy Hawker was studying for a PhD in environmental science.
article_snippet.sent: And Lizzy Hawker slight, 5 ft 4 in body would have to keep lifting those heavy shoes through 8,500m of ascent and descent
article_snippet.sent: Studying at Cambridge and later working for the British Antarctic Survey, Hawker struggled with the hours at Hawker desk and confined on boats.
article_snippet.sent: Hawker owns few possessions, travelling with just clothes, shoes and a laptop.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lizzy Hawker's gone on to become Britain’s