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Whittaker ascended Everest in 1963, 10 years after Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled the peak.

The mountaineer, REI visionary, and environmental advocate was the defining figure of 20th-century American climbing.

Jim Whittaker became a national celebrity after his 1963 climb and received the Hubbard Medal from President Kennedy.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A Nepali Sherpa has reached the top of Everest for the 27th time, breaking the world record for total number of summits of the world's tallest, and one of its deadliest, mountains.

Jim Whittaker, who became the first American mountaineer to summit Mt. Everest in 1963, died April 7. He was 97. MORE: ...