Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8008-L
President John F. Kennedy visits with members of 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 center (L-R): President Kennedy (holding scarf, or “kata,” presented to him by Nawang Gombu); Expedition Leader, Norman Dyhrenfurth; Dick Pownall (very back, behind Dyhrenfurth); National Geographic Society President, Melville B. Grosvenor; unidentified woman; Lute Jerstad (behind unidentified woman); Dr. Gil Roberts (behind Jerstad); Barry Bishop (partially hidden); Jim Whittaker (very back, behind Bishop); unidentified woman; Ambassador of Nepal, Matrika Prasad Koirala; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; James Lester (very back); and Dave Dingman (edge of frame). White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.5141, “Kata”]