Jim Whittaker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 10, 1929, Seattle, WA, USA
- Died
- April 7, 2026
- Movies
- 9
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2018 | Return to Mount Kennedy | Self |
| 2017 | Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey | Self |
| 2013 | High Tension | Self |
| 2013 | High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 | Self |
| 2013 | Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger | self |
| 2002 | Sherpa: The Proving Grounds | Self |
| 1967 | This Is Self Arrest | Narrator |
| 1965 | Americans on Everest | Self |
| 1965 | Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak | Self |
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