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Remembering Mount Everest climber Jim Whittaker
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April 9, 2026
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0:45Now PlayingJim Whittaker, the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97.
His achievement back in 1963 made him an instant celebrity.
Whittaker developed an early reverence for mountains and a clear understanding of the risks they carry, once reflecting in a 1981 interview, "When you live on the edge, you can see a little farther."
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