Monday evening, fire crews responded to a climber who fell an estimated 200 feet from the Index Town Wall.

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

Jim Whittaker, an REI exec, has died. The 97-year-old first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1963. He was the first ...

Jim Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest in 1963, dies at 97. Inside the life of a mountaineer, mentor and ...

The legendary mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died at the age of 97.