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 ...
<< Only eight black climbers have reached the top of Mount Everest >>
And they did it despite being denied access, ignoring all the “no black climbers allowed” signs at the two base camps. Amazing!
Made me remember the “Old Negro Space Program... MASSA” on YouTube
“DAMN, it’s cold as f*** up here!”
They need to check out the pictures of the current permanent residents of the mountain first.
I read that book, it’s an excellent read. At the end there’s a part about how some Nepalese see all the climbing as a disgrace, a defilement of the mountain. They’d prefer no one, of any color, climb it.
It’s a terrifying tale that will stay with you long after you read it. The movie was good too.
I read that book, it’s an excellent read. At the end there’s a part about how some Nepalese see all the climbing as a disgrace, a defilement of the mountain. They’d prefer no one, of any color, climb it.
It’s a terrifying tale that will stay with you long after you read it. The movie was good too.
“Challenging Everest? Why not drop in at Ricky Pules’ - only 24,000 feet from this cinema. Ricky and Maurice offer a variety of styles for the well-groomed climber. Like Sherpa Tensing and Sir Edmond Hillary be number one on top, when you’re Number One on Top?”
In Africa there's an entire continent full of people who know quite a lot about the outdoors. Perhaps that author would care to consult a few of them.
As far as "belonging" there, I'm not sure that's always a good thing. I'm sitting in my living room at the moment watching another five inches of snow come down on top of the two feet that are already on the ground and I'm thinking I belong indoors changing my diuretics from coffee to beer right about now. If there's anything racist in all that I'm damned if I can see what it is.
Everest is a ski lift for the rich powered by the work effort of Sherpa of Nepaul and Tibet. It takes a bit over a ton on material at base camp to get 1 pampered person to the top.
So, if and when several of them die in the attempt, can we finally say with certainty that Mt. Everest is racist. I sure hope so, since this has been bothering me for many years.
Activities like hiking and camping require physical effort and the willingness to be uncomfortable all for the intangible experience of being one with nature.
A few years ago there was a hoopla about how blacks didn't go camping so Oprah and her friend went camping. It was awkward and I don't either one has been camping since.
This stunt won't change anything.
They give ZERO examples of any black person being denied access to Everest, or any other mountain. Not only is no one standing in their way, but sponsors are lining up to fund and outfit them. Another example of manufactured racism.
Also, 8 black people have already climbed Everest, so this isn't really a "first", unless you consider them the first segregated expedition to climb Everest. And by the way, they might want to check Ms. Saal. She's as white as I am and looks a lot like Rachael Dolezal...
It’s a terrifying tale that will stay with you long after you read it. The movie was good too.
—
Agree. The movie adaptation is very close to the events of the book.
I had no idea prior to reading the book how the climbers keep going back and forth between the base camps as they slowly acclimate their bodies to ever thinner atmosphere. It sounds like a combination of being both boring and terrifying on top of excruciating.
I quit a trail group because in the summer of 2020 they sent out virtue-signaling nonsense about blacks’ access to the outdoor areas; I asked the president who mass-mailed the message if he’d ever gone to locations x, y. or z (within the scope of our coverage). These places are teeming with blacks in the summer, and were designed to do so (to serve people from the north end of NYC).
I don’t see many backpacking or hiking, but I see many of them in the summer camps and at the pools/beaches; I suspect the author of the letter just never actually visited them.
‘intentional lack of access’ = lack of money. Did blm fund this idiocy?
What could possibly go wrong?
Their bodies will stand out against the snow at the bottom of the North Col
This group should do some practice climbs together before attempting Everest...weed out the posers.
Gross.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.