Jim Whittaker

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Acting

Born

Feb 10, 1929

Died

Apr 7, 2026

From

Seattle, WA, USA

James Warren Whittaker was an American climber and mountain guide. On May 1, 1963, he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, alongside the Sherpa Nawang Gombu, a nephew of Tenzing Norgay. They ran out of oxygen, but managed to reach the summit.

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Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey

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High Tension

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High and Hallowed: Everest 1963

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Return to Mount Kennedy

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Everest - Blood, Sweat and Tears

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Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger

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Americans on Everest

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Sherpa: The Proving Grounds

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This Is Self Arrest

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Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak

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