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”]