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Looking Back on Everest: Jim Whittaker 50 years hence

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Howard Meyerson

Perhaps you know of this man: Jim Wittaker, the first American to climb Mt. Everest. That American expedition took place nearly 50 years ago in 1963. Whittaker and his sherpa,  Nawang Gombu, were the seventh and eighth ever to climb … Continue reading →

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