{"id":234271,"date":"2026-06-20T14:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234271"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:54:56","slug":"jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234271","title":{"rendered":"Jim Whittaker, first American climber to scale Mt. Everest, dies at 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Coast climber Jim Whittaker reached the highest point on Earth on May 1, 1963. He later turned recreation co-op REI into a business success story&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2026-04-08\/jim-whittaker-dead\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Coast climber Jim Whittaker reached the highest point on Earth on May 1, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234271-jim-whittaker-first-american-climber-to-scale-mt-everest-dies-at-97-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}