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1963 American Mount Everest expedition. On the 1963 American Mount Everest expedition, Jim Whittaker and Sherpa Nawang Gombu reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 1, 1963, using the conventional route via the South Col. This was the first time the summit had been reached by an American. However, on May 22 two other team members also ...
He established a new route on the North Face. 1981 American Medical Expedition - South Pillar/South East Ridge. 1982 Russian Expedition - South West Pillar. 1982 Canadian Mount Everest Expedition [ 19 ] 1982 Japanese Japanese Winter Expedition - South East Ridge. 1983 German/American Expedition - South East Ridge.
Everest and Lhotse from the south (Nepal): in the foreground are Thamserku, Kangtega, and Ama Dablam. Mount Everest(also Mount Sagarmatha or Mount Qomolangma)[ note 4 ] is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. [ 3 ]
James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American climber and mountain guide. [1] [2] Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, 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.
David Breashears. David Finlay Breashears (December 20, 1955 – March 14, 2024) was an American mountaineer, filmmaker, author and motivational speaker. [1] In 1985, he reached the summit of Mount Everest a second time, becoming the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest more than once. He is perhaps best known as the director and ...
October 11, 2024 at 2:10 PM. A National Geographic documentary team has found on Mount Everest what they believe is the partial remains of a British climber who vanished 100 years ago during a ...
Himex is a Mount Everest guiding company. [1] It was founded in 1996 by New Zealander Russell Brice. [1] The name is a truncated version of the full name "Himalayan Experience". [1] National Geographic said Himex was the "largest and most sophisticated guiding operation on Everest" in a 2013 article. [2]
Known for. First American to climb all 14 eight-thousanders; 5th person to do so without Oxygen. Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is an American high-altitude mountaineer, corporate speaker, and well known author in the mountain climbing community. He was the first American to climb all 14 of the eight-thousander mountains, and the 5th ...