Mountain Climbing is racist

and has a "colonial history". who knew ?

Team of nine black American climbers attempt to scale Mount Everest to tackle the peak's 'intentional lack of access for black people' and mountaineering's 'colonial history'
The Full Circle Everest Expedition is 'the first all black and brown expedition to the highest place on earth,' climbing leader Fred Campbell said
Team leader, 58-year-old Philip Henderson, told The Washington Post that the project to be about 'summiting Everest first' and 'everything else second'
In total, 10,155 people have reached the towering mountain's summit since white climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay scaled it first in 1953
Norgay was a man of color from Nepal and he, along with many people from the Sherpa community, climb Mount Everest frequently during peak season
Only eight black climbers have reached the top of Mount Everest, which stands 29,032 tall
The team is made up of a teacher, engineer, photographer and Iraq veteran and has already raised more than $150,000 to train for the spring 2022 climb


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