2026-04-07
1929-02-1097 years, 9 months, and 1 days old
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Place of birth:
Seattle, WA, USA
Adult:
No
Gender:
Male
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.
Images Gallery
Best Credits: 10
| Title | ||||||
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High Tension | Self | 8 | 2013-09-19 | 0.248 | ||
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 | Self | 10 | 2013-09-19 | 0.5664 | ||
Return to Mount Kennedy | Self | 0 | 2018-05-25 | 0.3685 | ||
Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger | self | 0 | 2013-02-22 | 0.3685 | ||
Americans on Everest | Self | 0 | 1965-09-10 | 0.3869 | ||
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey | Self | 7.8 | 2017-05-26 | 0.676 | ||
Sherpa: The Proving Grounds | Self | 0 | 2002-06-12 | 0.4095 | ||
This Is Self Arrest | Narrator | 0 | 1967-01-01 | 0.2781 | ||
Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak | Self | 0 | 1965-01-01 | 0.5554 | ||
Big Jim: An American on Everest | Self (archive footage) | 0 | 2026-11-20 | 0.5674 |
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