Jim Whittaker
- Métier
- Interprétation
- Naissance
- 10 février 1929
- Lieu de naissance
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Décès
- 7 avril 2026
Biographie
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.
Films avec 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