Jim Whittaker
Actor
- Born
- February 10, 1929 · Seattle, WA, USA
- Died
- April 7, 2026 (age 97)
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.
Known for
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
May 26, 2017
High Tension
September 19, 2013
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
September 19, 2013
Return to Mount Kennedy
May 25, 2018
Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger
February 22, 2013
Americans on Everest
September 10, 1965
Sherpa: The Proving Grounds
June 12, 2002
This Is Self Arrest
January 1, 1967
Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak
January 1, 1965
Acting9
- 2018Return to Mount Kennedy as Self
- 2017Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey as Self
- 2013High Tension as Self
- 2013High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 as Self
- 2013Nawang Gombu - Heart of a Tiger as self
- 2002Sherpa: The Proving Grounds as Self
- 1967This Is Self Arrest as Narrator
- 1965Americans on Everest as Self
- 1965Pilgrimage to a Mountain Peak as Self