Outdoor Afro
A group of climbers are set to make history as the first all Black American climbing team to summit on Mount Everest, Black Enterprise reports.
Phil Henderson is a veteran Himalayan mountaineer and a former instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School. Recently, he launched a project, the Full Circle Everest Expedition, a group of 9 climbers looking to make history as the first all Black American climbing team to attempt to summit Mount Everest.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world with a report of more than 10,000 summits as of 2020. Out of those summits, only eight have been Black climbers, men and women from Africa and Jamaica but never one American climber.
The team of seven men and two women who call themselves the “dream team,” will attempt this effort to not only make their personal dreams come true but also to change the landscape of representation in mountaineering.
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