Jim Whittaker
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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Films (10)
Big Jim: An American on Everest
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Return to Mount Kennedy
2018 · Self
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
2017 · Self
High Tension
2013 · Self
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
2013 · Self
Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger
2013 · self
Sherpa: The Proving Grounds
2002 · Self
This Is Self Arrest
1967 · Narrator
Americans on Everest
1965 · Self
Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak
1965 · Self
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