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The president and chief executive officer of the Rochester Museum & Science Center announced Tuesday she will leave her post this summer. Olson led RMSC since 2018 and served as the museum's seventh ...

Seattle native was the first American to climb Everest and led successful ascent of K2.

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FILE TO GO WITH Nepal-Everest-environment-climbing, FOCUS by Deepesh Shrestha (FILES) In this May 19, 2009 file photograph, unidentified mountaineers walk past the Hillary Step while pushing for the ...

Jim Whittaker, the pioneering climber who became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1963, has died at 97. His family confirmed he passed peacefully at his home in Port Townsend ...

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SEATTLE — Jim Whittaker, a Seattle born and raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to summit the world’s tallest peak in 1963, died Tuesday in Port Townsend ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker's 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after ...

Jim Whittaker, a Seattle-born-and-raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to summit the world’s tallest peak in 1963, died Tuesday in Port Townsend at the ...