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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy presents members of the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest 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 (very back); Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Richard Emerson (partially hidden); Barry Bishop; Dick Pownall (very back, wearing glasses); Lute Jerstad (motioning toward the President); Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu (behind Jerstad); Barry Prather (behind Gombu); Sherpa guide Girmi Dorje (right of Gombu); Jim Whittaker (behind Dorje); President Kennedy (wearing scarf, or “kata,” presented to him by Gombu); James Lester; Dave Dingman; Maynard Miller; Daniel Doody; and unidentified. White House Secret Service agent Emory Roberts stands at far left in background. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”]