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People from the United States (i.e. Americans) who have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Pages in category "American summiters of Mount Everest" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
Country Date Male climber Date Female climber References Afghanistan 2023-05-17: Samuel Dean Sidiqi [1] [2] [3] [4] Albania 2012-05-26: Gjergj Bojaxhi [5]: 2017-05-22 ...
A post-card of Everest from the 1920s, the view from Rongbuk glacier (north side) Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) and thus a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century.
On September 29, 1988, Stacy Allison, a woman from Portland, Oregon, became the first American woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.The mountain, which is 29,035 feet above sea level, is the ...
Mount Everest with West Ridge sloping down over snowfield (center of image) with Changtse on left skyline and Lhotse on right (annotated image) 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 ...
British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine died on Everest in 1924. New research sheds light on whether they reached the summit first. 100 years ago they disappeared on Everest.
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.
From Kala Patthar, west of Everest looking the South West face primarily Mount Everest from Gokyo Ri, showing a little more of the North face Tashi and Nungshi were the first twins to summit Mount Everest together. This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", meaning ...