# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-whittaker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:11.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-whittaker"
name: "Jim Whittaker"
slug: "jim-whittaker"
description: "James Warren Whittaker was an American climber and mountain guide. 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. They ran out of oxygen, but managed to reach the summit."
tagline: "American mountaineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Whittaker_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-02-10"
deathDate: "2026-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.45
  momentum:             0.04580152671755724
  historical:           9.762858666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5135491/"
    handle:    "nm5135491"
sources:
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    title: "جم وائٹیکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whittaker"
    title: "James Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whittaker"
    title: "Jim Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whittaker"
    title: "James Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whittaker"
    title: "Jim Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whittaker"
    title: "James Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iacobus_Whittaker"
    title: "Iacobus Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whittaker"
    title: "Jim Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whittaker"
    title: "Jim Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whittaker"
    title: "Jim Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1383689"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1641750"
    title: "Jim Whittaker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump