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Nawang Gombu, one of five Sherpas in attendance, drapes a Nepalese kata (friendship scarf) around the neck of President Kennedy in a July 1963 ceremony in which the President awarded the National Geographic Society’s prestigious Hubbard Medal to members of the 1963 American Everest Expedition.

Photograph by George Mobley

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