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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Mountain doesn’t give a damn what color they are.
White snow keepin the black folk down.
‘intentional lack of access for black people’ “
So blacks are banned from climbing Mount Everest?
Well, 10,000+ odd folks have summited - LESS than that have actually returned to talk about it.
I have run into this problem trying to recruit black people to join my ghost hunting expeditions.. Weird.. They don’t seem to like bluegrass festivals, much, either.
Me too
Yeah. Apparently Mother Nature hates black people and prevented them from climbing Mt. Everest in the past. Who knew?
MOUNT EVEREST IS RACIST!!!
Well it IS White.
Sarcasm noted.
Yes; with the way CGI is currently advancing, a post-mortem career at BBC for Sir Richard is certainly possible.
(You’ve got to wonder what those contracts/copyright/licensing agreements look like. Especially arbitration and dispute resolution.)
The mountain is racist..... it intentionally denies access to them...
That’s okay, I guess...racism is always the excuse...so much so that it takes GoFundMe to make it all equal up...
This crap is so stupid. Is there NOTHING that is not racist? Mountains are racist. Trees are racist. I predict they take the gofundme money, make a half asses attempt, and disappear.
There’s a whole ravine with dead climbers one passes on the way to the top. If you have a serious accident going up chances are good, you die. There are no emergency services that can get up there to get you. I think the ravine will get a few from this group.
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I guess all the Sherpas are gonna be surprised to know they're not black or brown.....
In order to be consistent with affirmative action and all of that, I’m thinking the climbers should have been air-dropped in and allowed to start their ascent at 28,800 feet.
Lack of access? The mountain has been thete a long time. Maybe a lack of interest? It’s never been on my bucket list- but certainly in the last few decades discrimination can’t have kept black people off Everest..
Was there a “No Blacks Allowed” sign on Mt Everest?
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