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His best-selling, award-winning memoir, A Life on the Edge - Memoirs of Everest and Beyond, spans nine decades of American mountaineering, plus politics, love, loss, sorrow and joy. http://jimwhittaker.com/video daily 0.75 2016-09-23 http://jimwhittaker.com/early-days daily 0.75 2016-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461267773651-4I3Z1A708K3J784I0NLO/Early-Days_-1.png Early Days Jim's mother, Hortense Elizabeth Whittaker, 1921. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461268589861-N96L6HCWO1K2O8V4HCME/Early-Days_-2.png Early Days Jim's father, Charles Bernard "Cannonball" Whittaker, in World War I army uniform, 1918. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461267826762-U4LQCIPNC0ZQCQMWO19A/Early-Days_-3.png Early Days Jim and twin brother Lou, 1930. 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Whittaker Family Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278380352-XBHRMCOAC3SJN6MA62VV/2_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-4 Jim wearing Balti hat, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278423345-UIVSNV9IAU8OY4KXI7NO/3_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-5 Dianne in local shirt, with fishing vest repurposed as a photography vest, 1978. Jim Whittaker Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278424253-L6474DDSZGEKAHI5U18U/4_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-6 Porters gather outside the pay tent during a porter strike at Urdukas on the Baltoro Glacier, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278425841-3I9IUVG2K9RV7TTYA6XP/5_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-7 Porters negotiate the trail on the Baltoro Glacier, near camp at Lilliwa, with the Trango Towers in the background, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278426154-NBM11AKEN6OPUX4N2480/6_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-8 Paiju Peak, 20,012 feet, on the Baltoro Glacier, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278472521-KG5J5LDGW2EFOJVS3UER/7_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-9 Gasherbrum IV, 26,001 feet, by moonlight, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278472390-OAGDRTYG10KHMRBPRTC2/8_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-10 Jim carrying a load above Camp I on the 1975 route. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278474265-U66AKZPJ0AVV72EIVGOS/9_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-11 Climbers descend from the 1975 Camp I site with a sled full of oxygen cylinders to be cached for a later expedition, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278474239-WJ4Q6Z5MW0TDU0OFNGEG/10_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-12 The 1975 team with Vibram soles, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278519769-3NW09C3SC86YICCEYKYE/11_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-13 Leif Patterson, a member of the 1975 team, who was later killed with his son in an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278520345-JEWK3HDXJCMTJRLYFL88/12_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-14 K2—28, 251 feet—from Concordia, at sunset, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278520753-9O3ZPM8EJFXHJ6E5CQZR/13_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-15 The District Commissioner, Liaison Officer Saleem Khan, and Jim take care of the final paperwork before the team departs Skardu, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278522096-YUTFP2G2VEX3WWRWRWVP/14_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-16 John Roskelley and Lou Reichardt check out porter hopefuls at Dasso, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278580027-X17DZ6VCO03TK6V8JGDK/15_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-17 Balti porters loading up at Dasso for the first day of the 125-mile K2 approach march, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278579917-TVCS8J1T1RA0C0MBV3EB/16_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-18 The 1978 team at Base Camp, with Liaison Officer Saleem and four Hunza high-altitude porters, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278582269-N2R7ZHYDF48B4JQ7JNHK/17_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-19 A line of porters leaves Base Camp with gear for the upper mountain, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278582513-F8LKVAC0WE0A3IGNCESM/18_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-20 Team members flake out at Camp I after a day carrying loads to Camp II, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278633172-B0XWHTQ89L1FOR4C2ALD/19_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-21 Dianne and Jim in their tent at Camp II, 1978. Craig Anderson Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278633292-G2E0K8594WM5YFU44TKO/20_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-22 Craig Anderson and Jim Wickwire leave Camp III with loads for Camp IV, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278634588-9IG0MA8LKSZ03LYC1TS8/21_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-23 Two climbers ascend from Camp III, upper right, barely visible in photo—with Camp IV, lower left, on the knife-edge ridge that is the border between Pakistan and China, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278718433-TFZWU7VB02LN3KRHJNQC/22_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-24 Two climbers, barely visible, ascending the pinnacle in the center of the photo, the site of Camp IV, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278718329-GU2UFBMX3RO8B8NOKCYB/23_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-25 The small pinnacle, center, where Camp IV was located, and the route to Camp V up the ridge on the left, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278720067-BP2B3UGGDU9NS017HPT6/24_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-26 Rick Ridgeway and John Roskelley re-erect a tent blown down in a storm at Camp III, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278720210-6W4EDOIBOTI3OW4WW7PR/25_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-27 Lou Reichardt putting up a tent in strong winds at Camp III, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278772389-I9K6YPQK8SWQXUFAA53S/26_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-28 Rick Ridgeway and John Roskelley, exhausted at Camp III after putting in the route to Camp IV, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278772700-CQH55Z35R2S6JX8MAKIR/27_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-29 Climbers en route to Camp V, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278774344-V0HW6OJNU4518SLQJ0FU/28_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-30 Camp IV at about 26,000 feet, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278773571-ZGUKOV462M05NHNP3YV5/29_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-31 The first two American climbers approach the summit of K2, 1978. Rob Schaller Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278821933-A8E7EF19MAFREGPK29ZO/30_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-32 Rick Ridgeway with frostbitten fingers after descending from the summit, 1978. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461278821999-U7WTAYP1N0V2N39TNYL7/31_K2-Expeditions.png K2 Expeditions - K2-33 The classic view of K2 from Concordia, at sunrise, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461877615416-0Y6UHUKDCVA0J6ZPQZH0/12_K2-Expeditions_0.png K2 Expeditions K2—28,252 feet—from Concordia at sunset, 1975. Dianne Roberts Photo http://jimwhittaker.com/jim-whittaker daily 0.75 2016-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461370707164-JI637T9MD97FUF7DBO62/Splash-Page_Everest-2.png Jim Whittaker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461370028596-YZK7DXDVB2T7M4HXOSAI/_DSC1238_Jim+Whittaker+portrait_+by+Dianne+Roberts.png Jim Whittaker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461371059312-AY2I1D4MDXXDTLBU3W1X/Splash-Page_Kennedy-2.png Jim Whittaker http://jimwhittaker.com/links daily 0.75 2016-04-28 http://jimwhittaker.com/everest-1963-1 daily 0.75 2016-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461270784634-K91KPY2KJ931ED4KHI85/1_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-1 An expedition teammate and Tom Hornbein test oxygen equipment on Mt. Rainier, during the team shakedown, 1962. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461270817111-8V5FX19447JNKP16XGEB/1_Everest-1963-2.png Everest 1963 - Everest-2 Peak of Mt. Everest in background, with Lhotse and Nuptse in front - from Namche Bazaar. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461270849825-FN243616M0CXPW80RW3M/1_Everest-1963-3.png Everest 1963 - Everest-3 Jim in REI, assembling equipment for the climb. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461885585826-SNX0F5HA7NXXL24Q0NHO/2_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-4 Line of porters on the 185-mile Everest approach march. Willi Unsoeld Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461885789771-NWXJHDC0DHZUI22UNVWB/3_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-5 Jim posing for the camera at Base Camp with Rainier beer— one of the expedition’s sponsors. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461270890266-0KWNPCUWNQXSSX00HK46/4_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-6 Cimbers move up the Khumbu Icefall above Base Camp. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461270963141-M5M7TJONCN5VFXV60D8P/4_Everest-1963-%282%29.png Everest 1963 - Everest-7 Climber on Tyrolean traverse in the Khumbu Icefall. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461270989428-2RVFBQXA0POPM74B426V/5_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-8 Jake Breitenbach, 27-year-old guide from Jackson, WY, who was killed in the Khumbu Icefall the second day of the climb. Lila M. Bishop Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271021660-XWW7P2BQCMPOC1YUYG1K/6_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-9 Camp II in the Western Cwm. Barry C. Bishop Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271051760-CMDWU5KNTSUNY2MH90GM/6_Everest-1963-2.png Everest 1963 - Everest-10 Jim and Sherpa Nawang Gombu at Everest Base Camp. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271137169-APN5XAVE8P8C8ECB6UVA/7_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-11 Nawang Gombu with Sherpa porters in the background. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271175362-ATY7BV44VRFU36HK7RXW/8_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-12 Jim at Camp V in the South Col, the day before the summit climb. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271239314-JUSBYO9LG2BB9ONN2EZ4/9_Everest-1963-2.png Everest 1963 - Everest-13 Everest summit pyramid on the day of the summit climb, with strong winds blowing into Tibet. 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Ambercrombie Photo/National Geographic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271600453-9FGBJWT261U96B4U65YL/14_Everest-1963-2.png Everest 1963 - Everest-20 The six men who conquered Everest, from national Geographic Magazine, October 1963. National Geographic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271634248-MVQE6DSU6IN0GWXO3OH9/15_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-21 Jim (at right) with (L to R) Sir Ed Hillary, AMEE team leader Norman Dyhrenfurth, and Hillary’s first wife Louise (who later died with their daughter in an airplane crash on their way to Lukla) in the Khumbu Valley on the return march. 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George Mobley Photo/National Geographic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461271882856-0NCSPWX4G445BRFPC06W/20_Everest-1963.png Everest 1963 - Everest-25 East meets west: Jim and Gombu reunited in Seattle one month after the White House ceremony. Seattle Post Intelligencer Collection/Museum of History and Industry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461886850058-03HTFPKZEF2WDICYPOA3/Early-Days_17.png Everest 1963 - Everest-26 Portrait taken in a Seattle studio after the climb. 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George Mobley Photo/National Geographic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272791603-E7NMPUIVYGGRC2Y8PZGL/2_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-2 Jim meets Robert Kennedy, with photographer Bradford Washburn in the background. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272882964-G2EUJORVRMF4XNI4WSRQ/3_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-3 Jim and Robert Kennedy arrive in Whitehorse en route to Mt. Kennedy, 1965. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272883390-ZUURNDE91BZBKITN2UVY/4_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-4 Jim and Robert Kennedy arrive in Whitehorse aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force plane, 1965. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272885743-IH1A3034TK1GEE36J0U8/7_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-5 Robert Kennedy and Barry Prather traversing the glacier en route to the base of Mt. Kennedy. Jim Whittaker Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272886594-HTF3H4X0GL32644BWYLY/8_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-6 Spending the night in a snow cave—Jim is standing and Robert Kennedy is resting on a shelf dug into the wall. William Albert Allard Photo/National Geographic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272886679-42K4D33JVZ7F8TWYIVNE/9_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-7 Robert Kennedy alone on the summit of Mt. Kennedy, the Canadian peak named after his brother. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272884528-765WLN3Z3BS5DOEAFTN2/5_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-8 Jim and Robert Kennedy on the summit of Mt. Kennedy—a first ascent. William Albert Allard Photo/National Geographic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272887649-NUGIDGP918IDUF6WIIB5/10_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-9 Jim and Robert Kennedy on the summit of Mt. Kennedy—an emotional moment. William Albert Allard Photo/National Geographic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272884944-6EVAULLWZUJ1WUBU1XEX/6_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-10 After the climb—Jim and Robert Kennedy. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272890130-F7DGXCKPVEVMJQ2KIYGR/11_The-Kennedys_cropped.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-11 Jim and family with Bradford Washburn after the climb—sons Carl and Scott (front) with Jim’s parents, Hortense and C.B. Whittaker (back). Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272891580-8ROHWZGZXRR0WQ6Q2JXO/12_The-Kennedys_cropped.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-12 Robert Kennedy with Jim and his sons Carl and Scott, after the climb. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272893345-9SB3NHP2ADXPJPWM2M3Z/13_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-13 Jim and Robert Kennedy skiing together in Sun Valley, about 1966. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272893272-LFR5D8ERJ6W0L6BWEVX0/14_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-14 (L to R) Willy Schaeffler (coach of the US Olympic Ski Team), Ted Kennedy, John Glenn, Jim, Robert Kennedy—in Sun Valley, about 1966. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272894337-5P0RKRZY7P2M6VZMUF7V/15_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-15 Jim teaching “John John” the snowplow, in front of the Roundhouse at Sun Valley. (L to R) Jim, with Jacqueline, Caroline, and John Kennedy, Jr., about 1966. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272895951-CRXMYL6KK63JCK8ZN4LE/16_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-16 (L to R) Robert Kennedy, Willy Schaeffler, John Glenn, and Jim—on a river trip, about 1967. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272896960-LLJ2PZZ8JPZ7ANGQXVAB/17_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-17 A family get together—Jim and family with Ethel Kennedy and some of the Kennedy children, 1960s. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272897508-W2ZDG2V2CD48PBYC3F4S/18_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-18 On the campaign trail in Oregon—Jim, his ex-wife, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, and an unidentified woman, on the Columbia River, 1968. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272898016-02OM20NC8DQV41K4LZ9H/19_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-19 Robert Kennedy is lifted over the crowds in Oregon during the 1968 presidential campaign, with Jim behind. Whittaker Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5713e4567da24f0475df3224/1461272898770-OYD4Y4ZF0WYV3SK2U2AC/20_The-Kennedys.png The Kennedys - Kennedys-20 Pallbearers carry the coffin of Robert Kennedy, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, 1968. (L to R) Dave Hackett, Steve Smith, Robert McNamara, Lord Harlech, Lem Billings, John Glenn, Jim Whittaker, Averell Harriman (hidden behind Jim). 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