Enjoy the scenery.
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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My doctor is from India. He loves to ski.
They’re trying to achieve racial equity in Mt. Everest’s corpses.
Yep, infamous
Hint: It's not America or Christians or straits or whites. ROTFLMChristianFreeAmericanSuccessfulHairyWhiteUnsodomizedAO!!
Ever take a look at a photo of Mt. Everest?
Just LOOK at how WHITE that mountain is!
Indisputably that is one big racist HONKY rock...
“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’.”
There goes the neighborhood.
Only if they are all black or brown too. No need for whity to risk a rescue if they are part of the problem.
I thought so too, but maybe she is another Rachel Dolezal.
It’s threads like this that make people say the people on this site are racist.
Or swimming in my experience.
Back in the 80s went snow skiing in Aspen....in 3 days only saw one black guy skiing .....it certainly was an anomaly.
Enjoy the scenery.
‘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.
Who the hell is trying to exclude you or anyone else for that matter you moron?
Dr. Who can go get him. Besides could that stop the ‘bbc’?
That headline reads like a Babylon Bee parody.
I gotta admit, when I think of mountain climbing black people don’t really come to mind.
Then again, I’ve heard many black comics joke about dumbass white people climbing mountains and white water rafting and scuba diving.
Break a leg!
Camping, hiking, rock climbing, national parks, and most out-door activities are racist 'cause it's stuff White people do.
Are you prepared to have a difficult conversation?
So a mountain is racist now.
Um, OK.
What was it that little kid told Bruce Willis?
And you have to stand in line - literally - to go the last few yards. As my granddad used to say, “you can’t swing a dead cat” on Mt Everest without hitting a climber.
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