Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (right) visits with the first American expedition team to summit Mount Everest and their families in the Rose Garden; the President presented the team with the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal. From left of center column (L-R): Richard Emerson; James Ramsey Ullman (partially hidden); Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Dick Pownall (very back, behind Dyhrenfurth); President of the National Geographic Society, Melville B. Grosvenor; President Kennedy (holding scarf, or “kata,” presented to him by Nawang Gombu); Barry Bishop (partially hidden, behind President Kennedy); Dr. Gil Roberts (behind Bishop); Jim Lester; Jim Whittaker (behind Lester); and Barry Corbet. Members of the family at left are unidentified. White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”] [Vertical line on the right side of the image is original to the file print.]