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Jim Whittaker
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🎂 February 10, 1929📍 Seattle, WA, USA🕯️ April 7, 2026 · Age 97
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.
BODY OF WORK
Jim Whittaker's Filmography
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Return to Mount Kennedy
2018
as Self
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Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
2017⭐ 7.8
as Self
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High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
2013⭐ 10.0
as Self
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High Tension
2013⭐ 8.0
as Self
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Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger
2013
as self
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Sherpa: The Proving Grounds
2002
as Self
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This Is Self Arrest
1967
as Narrator
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Americans on Everest
1965
as Self
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Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak
1965
as Self