Jim Whittaker
- Recitazione
- 10 febbraio 1929 · Seattle, WA, USA
- 7 aprile 2026
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Big Jim: An American on Everest · In persona
- Return to Mount Kennedy · In persona
- Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey · In persona
- High Tension · In persona
- High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 · In persona
- Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger · In persona
- Sherpa: The Proving Grounds · In persona
- This Is Self Arrest · Narrator
- Americans on Everest · In persona
- Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak · In persona