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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Hey, maybe blacks have more sense than wasting their money climbing Everest?
“At least there will be some diversity among the frozen bodies near the peak. It was waaaaaay too white up there.”
Green Boots, one of the most recognized corpses on the mountain, was Indian.
Not really, Japanese have la fairly large representation of dead on Everest.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
There was a series on Discovery channel about climbing Everest. It was brutal. The guy who ran the expedition stayed at base camp watching via a telescope. It was weird who made and who didn’t. Big burly biker guy did not make it, but a retired female school teacher made it, a lower extremity amputee made it to the top but damaged his stump so badly he had to be carried down. They talked about the bodies on Everest. A Japanese fellow was up there. His family wanted him recovered. 19 climbers moved the body like 20 feet before they ran out of oxygen, he is still up there. One fellow was dying, climbers were warned to leave him or there would by 2 bodies instead of one. The expedition leader was roundly criticized for that this is definitely the environment for “social justice”.
This is about the climber they left to die. https://www.sunjournal.com/2006/06/12/expedition-leader-denies-knowing-britsh-climber-trouble-descent/
Are Sherpas non brown???
This.😏
Another event emphasizing color, from the equality crowd which happen to lecture everyone to be colorblind.
All that information, and no mention of the most important statistic -- the skin color of Everest's victims.
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