Jim Whittaker
- Acting
- February 10, 1929 · Seattle, WA, USA
- April 7, 2026
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Return to Mount Kennedy · Self
- Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey · Self
- High Tension · Self
- High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 · Self
- Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger · Self
- Sherpa: The Proving Grounds · Self
- This Is Self Arrest · Narrator
- Americans on Everest · Self
- Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak · Self