Jim Whittaker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 10, 1929
- Place of birth
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Died
- 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.
Movies with Jim Whittaker
- Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey 2017 · ★ 7.8
- High Tension 2013 · ★ 8.0
- High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 2013 · ★ 10.0
- Return to Mount Kennedy 2018
- Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger 2013
- Americans on Everest 1965
- Sherpa: The Proving Grounds 2002
- This Is Self Arrest 1967
- Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak 1965
- Big Jim: An American on Everest 2026