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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (center left, at microphone) delivers remarks in the Rose Garden before presenting the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal to members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest. Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth, and National Geographic Society President, Melville B. Grosvenor, stand right of President Kennedy. Members of the team (standing behind the President) include: William Siri; Daniel Doody; Dave Dingman; Barry Corbet; Barry Bishop; Allen Auten; Maynard Miller; James Lester; Lute Jerstad; Tom Hornbein; Dick Pownall; and Richard Emerson. Those pictured in the crowd include National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; Ambassador of Nepal, Matrika Prasad Koirala; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; and Vice-President for Research and Exploration at the National Geographic Society, Leonard Carmichael. White House Washington, D.C.