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...world learned that James Warren Whittaker, 34, had gone as high as a man can and still cling to earth. From Katmandu, Nepal, came word that it was Whittaker, together with a Sherpa guide named Nwang Gombu,* who planted a U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Everest on May 1. The Best in a Person. Manager of a Seattle store that sells mountaineering equipment, towering (6 ft. 5 in., 210 Ibs.) Jim Whittaker started climbing as a Boy Scout in the early 1940s. By the time he and his twin brother Lou were in high school, they were expert...
...nephew of Tenzing Xorkey, the famous Sherpa who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first successful Everest ascent...
...struggled upward, cracks opened and little avalanches plunged down the slopes. On March 23, disaster struck: without warning, an ice wall collapsed and buried Wyoming's John Breitenbach, 27, as he was working to improve the trail. Breitenbach was the first American ever killed scaling Everest...
...mountaineers and their Sherpas pushed on, through the high valley of the Western Cwm (rhymes with tomb), across the snow-mantled face of Mount Lhotse to the South Col-the 25,850-ft.-high saddle that joins Lhotse to Everest. Goggles shielded their eyes from snow blindness; they learned to sleep with oxygen masks on. Now the going was savage. By last week, when they pitched camp No. 6 at 27,800 ft.-just 228 ft. below Everest's cloud-swathed summit-only four men were climbing...
...climbers. Where were they? Were they safe? Had they reached the summit? Suddenly, the radio crackled. The message was laconic: at exactly 8 a.m. (Greenwich Time) on May 1, two men-an American and his Sherpa guide-had stumbled out of the mist onto the top of Mount Everest. A second assault team was waiting to start on its way. Then the radio went silent. Until both teams returned, Expedition Leader Dyhrenfurth refused to identify the men who had planted the Stars and Stripes at the summit of the world...