Jim Whittaker, first American to reach peak of Mount Everest, dead at 97

April 8, 2026

Whittaker’s 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled the peak.

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