- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 10, 1929
- Died
- Apr 7, 2026 (aged 97)
- Place of birth
- Seattle, WA, USA
Jim Whittaker
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.
