Posted on 01/03/2022 12:50:08 PM PST by Trillian
A team of nine black climbers is attempting to scale Mount Everest to tackle the mountain's 'intentional lack of access for black people' and mountaineering's 'colonial history'.
The Full Circle Everest Expedition, which climbing leader Fred Campbell described as 'the first all black and brown expedition to the highest place on earth' in an Instagram video, is hoping to change the future of mountaineering.
The first two men to ever complete the climb to Mount Everest's summit were Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, and Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, in 1953.
In fact, many people from the Sherpa community climb the mountain daily during peak season to carry heavy supplies for climbers, and outside of Nepal, 'Sherpa' has also become a name for mountain guides.
Since 1953, a total of 10,155 people have reached the towering mountain's summit.
According to a GoFundMe created for the expedition - which has surpassed its $150,000 goal - only eight black climbers of the 10,000 made it to the summit.
The Full Circle Everest Expedition team is hoping to add nine more to that figure with people from all over the world training to summit the world's tallest mountain in the spring of 2022.
'Everest is not the end goal, but just the beginning. Our expedition will reshape the narrative of the outdoors to one that is inclusive and where everyone belongs,' a description on the GoFundMe read.
On Instagram, Manoah Ainuu, one of the athletes, said that 'the main reason this is important: Historically, black and brown people haven't been in these areas and environments, especially not on the highest point of the world'.
'So we think this is an opportunity to be first in a lot of ways,' he added.
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YAWN
Good luck.
MOUNT EVEREST IS RACIST!!!
My first thought when reading the headline was: the Bee does it again!
Goo luck to them, whatever color they are. I hope they have tons of experience, especially if they have no Sherpas with them.
When will the dickie attenborough BBC special air?
ya mean even mountains are racist? Who knew?
Tried to interest my black friends and acquaintances in skiing. “We don’t do that” was the common answer.
Racist azzholes.
many poor people of color climb everest every year. access is not limited to anyone... if you can carry the bags of the wealthy who wish to climb.
Weird.
Perhaps we found the key sentence. Race-mongering for fun and profit!
Lack of access to black people? What kind of crap is that, all you have to do to climb Everest is pay someone 30 to 60k for the experience.
It doesn’t matter if you have the ability or past experience, you just have to pay the fee.
Good luck, hope you dont die sitting in the queue under the Hillary step.
‘intentional lack of access for black people’
How is access for black people “intentionally” refused?????
Play stupid games.......
These Babylon Bee articles just get crazier all the time!
from a caption in the article:
Team leader, 58-year-old Philip Henderson, said that the project to be about ‘summiting Everest first’ and ‘everything else second’
i have a bad feeling about this reach the top at the expense of everything else mentality. i wish them luck, but safety should be the number one concern.
Ha!
At Heavenly a few years ago, I rode the lift up with a black gentleman from Nigeria (had lived in the U.S. for many years). He said he LOOOOVED skiing! He too expressed that his friends of color and family had no interest in doing it.
“to tackle the mountain’s ‘intentional lack of access for black people’”
The mountain is not to blame, gravity is the culprit here.
I never new that scaling Mt Everest had an ‘intentional lack of access for black people’. I am enlightened. /s
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