Awards and Honors
- For being the first American to scale Mount Everest, Whittaker was awarded the Hubbard Medal by United States President John F. Kennedy.
| “ | If you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much space. | ” |
| “ | You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered; you conquer yourself. | ” |
(This is essentially equivalent to George Mallory's question and answer: "Have we conquered an enemy? None but ourselves," quoted in Everest: the West Ridge, p. 27. )
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