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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-08-A
AR38, KN38
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-I
President John F. Kennedy stands with members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. (L-R) Unidentified White House Police officer; unidentified; President Kennedy; Allen Auten; Tom Hornbein; Dick Pownall (behind Hornbein); Barry Bishop; Barry Prather; Lute Jerstad; Barry Corbet; Dr. Gil Roberts (very back); Sherpa guide Girmi Dorje (partially hidden); Dave Dingman; Maynard Miller; Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Horizontal line across the top of the image is original to the file print.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-H
President John F. Kennedy (left, back to camera) greets members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. (L-R) President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor; Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington; President Kennedy; Dick Pownall; Tom Hornbein; Barry Bishop; Barry Prather (very back, behind Bishop); Lute Jerstad; Barry Corbet; Dr. Gil Roberts (partially hidden, behind Corbet); Dave Dingman; James Lester (partially hidden, behind Dingman); Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-E
Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu presents a scarf, or “kata,” to President John F. Kennedy during the presentation of the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal to members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest. (L-R) President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor; unidentified; Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Richard Emerson; Tom Hornbein; Dick Pownall (behind Hornbein); Nawang Gombu; Barry Bishop (partially hidden by Gombu); Barry Prather (behind Bishop); Lute Jerstad (to the right of Bishop and behind Gombu); Jim Whittaker (very back, behind Jerstad); President Kennedy; Dave Dingman; James Lester (behind Dingman); Daniel Doody; unidentified; and William Siri. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”]