“It is in the wild places, from the damp clean air of an ancient forest, on a heaving ocean in unpredictable winds, on a snowy summit at the top of the world that I enter my own personal cathedral and know where I fit in the vastness of creation.”
A Life Well Lived
Jim Whittaker was the first American to reach the summit of Everest. He made it to the top despite having run out of oxygen, a testament not only to his will but to his world view, epitomised in his simple but forceful observation that ‘risk is really important to life’. A Life Well Lived: Jim Whittaker and 50 Years of Everestincorporates remarkable archive footage from Whittaker’s Everest expeditions as he reflects on how
Jim Whittaker was the first American to reach the summit of Everest. He made it to the top despite having run out of oxygen, a testament not only to his will but to his world view, epitomised in his simple but forceful observation that ‘risk is really important to life’. A Life Well Lived: Jim Whittaker and 50 Years of Everestincorporates remarkable archive footage from Whittaker’s Everest expeditions as he reflects on how
climbing has shaped his life and how the sport has changed in the 50 years since his remarkable achievement.
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