(Left) Jim Whittaker, summit of Mount Everest, May 1, 1963, photo by Nawang Gombu. (Right) Outside the family home in Port Townsend (l-r) Leif Whittaker, Jim Whittaker, Dianne Roberts, Joss Whittaker, photo by Dianne Roberts

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Jim Whittaker: To the Top of the World and Back Again

Seattle native Jim Whittaker turned a love of nature and a thirst for adventure into a string of precedent-setting achievements.