If they fail, will it be because snow is white? Will they ask for lower requirements to claim success?
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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That Babylon Bee is hillar... oops.
Have you ever seen a black snow capped mountain? Well there you have it. Racist.
Umm… the Nepalese are technically brown skinned and act as guides for the poor white men…
It’s covered in snow, which is WHITE, so you do the math.....
Is this the Babylon Bee, or is this a real story?
Yes mountains are racist.
And have you see pictures of Everest? All that white snow? Maybe that is a racist meme as well.
It was all those “White Oxygen Only!” bottles that gave it away.
This is so kamalatoe will have someone to say she’s named after.
Not sure, but it’s the fault of white people, somewhere
I hope they realize that there are no quotas for successful expeditions; mountain climbing is merit based and completely color blind. The summit is the summit.
Put ya'll hands together FReepers and sing!
Stupid people come in all colors. No surprise there.
If they fail, will it be because snow is white? Will they ask for lower requirements to claim success?
Maybe the realized they don’t have to swim to get to the top.
Ready the rescue team...
Dark skins. They will be easy to find after the avalanche.
10,000 people have summitted Everest?? Dang... you’d think they’d have put in an escalator by now.
(P.S. - of course, that mountain will also kill people with no regard to skin color)
Be there during Black Ski Week and you will see lots of brothers and sisters there.
I’d suggest anyone crazy enough to even contemplate climbing Everest either read the book or watch the movie “Into Thin Air”. It will dispel any romantic notions about climbing Everest.
I never had the least inclination to climb Everest, but in reading the book you really get the idea of just how physically horrible the experience is. You’re sick from the altitude, you have perpetual headaches, and the last part of the assent will kill you from lack of oxygen and/or freezing if you don’t make it back to the base camp.
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