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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 ...
The early slowness of expedition frequency reflected the many difficulties of mounting one at that time, which included expense, travel by conventional means from distant Europe, language and culture barriers, the need to hire large numbers of native porters, access to the mountains (including permission of respective governments), extremely limited communications, and, simply, the unknown, as ...
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.
Barry Chapman Bishop (January 13, 1932 – September 24, 1994 [1]) was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar.With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, the first American team to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963.
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[19] [20] Many geographical locations were featured including Mount Everest in the October 1963 article "Six to the Summit" about the American Everest expedition, written by Norman Dyhrenfurth [21] with photographs by mountaineer Barry C. Bishop. [22]
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On 15 and 16 May, 25 members, including 13 sherpas, of the Indian Army Everest Expedition 2007, scaled Mount Everest. This was the fourth expedition by the Indian Army to Everest; but the first from Tibet side. [117] [118] [119] On May 17, Omar Samra became the first Egyptian and youngest Arab to reach the summit of Everest, at 7:19 EGP ...