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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Goodness yes..
We need a racially balanced group of dead bodies on the side of Everest……
Definitely too white…..😂
BTW, has anyone else noticed that all snow is white?!? This can’t continue!!!!
How can a mountain have intentionally discriminated against anyone?
>>intentional lack of access for black people
What, did white people didn’t not offer to pickup all their expenses for them?
"inclusive and where everyone belongs"
It would appear they are FOS, eight have already done it.
They would be screened out if they have full sickle cell disease, of course, where low oxygen or even stress and fever can cause sickling crisis.
but just carrying one sickle cell chromosome, meaning half their blood is prone to sickle in low oxygen environments. For example, The military found problems in paratroopers who jumped from high altitudes.
The reason for sickle cell disease id that you have a lower chance of dying from malaria at low altitudes. And this is one reason for higher childhood mortality in blacks whose ancestors came from west or central Africa
Why do I hope these hateful racist jerks who are jealous of the individual success of others in climbing it fall of the mountain never to be heard from again?
Why do I hope these hateful racist jerks who are jealous of the individual success of others in climbing it fall of the mountain never to be heard from again?
>>P.S. - of course, that mountain will also kill people with no regard to skin color.
We can always hope. Maybe a ‘white avalanche’ will get them, and prove the mountain is racist.
Sounds like the very few black scuba divers I have met.
From the Caribbean or Fiji. Not one American black.
Whatever. Just be careful up there. The packed trails are becoming death traps.
How can that be as they are in all of the commercials?
Expect to see surfers claiming the same thing. "You should listen to my story of whitey keeping me from surfing so that I can finance my beach bum lifestyle."
Affirmative action vs. nature
Got to say I’m betting on nature…
And what's the cost of claiming Mt. Everest is racist? ZERO.
Good Lord. I thought this was from the Babylon Bee. I never knew that a mountain could be racist. What a bunch of maroons!
The peak is often snow covered. Do they want to “paint it black,” as Jagger used to sing?
Our son climbs, but not at this level. I hope he never does. I have quite enough gray hair already.
“...which has surpassed its $150,000 goal.”
Um, it takes a million dollars to climb Everest.
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