Personal Life
Williams, her husband and three children reside in Westchester County, New York.
She serves on the board of the National Eating Disorders Association and also on the Duke University Library Advisory Board.
Williams is an avid tennis player and runner – in November 2010, she ran the New York City Marathon. But her passion is hiking and mountaineering. She and her son, Nathaniel, climbed Tanzanian Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, in July 2007. Williams blogged about the climb using a satellite phone and took a camera to videotape the journey. She returned with several reports on the trip. She summitted the mountain on July 23, 2007, just after 1 a.m. New York City time. On September 23, 2008, Williams received the Tanzanian Award for her reporting on the climb.
She has also climbed Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California; Mount Rainier, southeast of Seattle, Washington; Mount Washington in New Hampshire; Pikes Peak, west of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Mount Fuji in Japan; and the Pitons in Saint Lucia. Williams has also hiked many of the back-country trails in the U.S. National Parks.
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