SEATTLE — The celebrated mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died. He was 97.
The legendary mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died at the age of 97.
As an executive with the outdoor-supply retailer REI and an experienced climber, he conquered Mount Everest in 1963, when ...
Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97.
West Coast climber Jim Whittaker reached the highest point on Earth on May 1, 1963. He later turned recreation co-op REI into ...
Jim Whittaker died Tuesday in Port Townsend. The legendary Washington mountaineer made history in 1963 as the first American ...
Jim Whittaker, a Seattle born and raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to ...
Whittaker took up climbing as a Boy Scout, and his ascent of the world’s highest mountain turned the shy Seattle man into an ...
Until his dying day, Northwest icon and alpine legend Jim Whittaker remembered his first glimpse at Mount Everest from the ...
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