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An all-Black team will climb Mount Everest for the first time
The first Everest expedition made up entirely of Black Americans aims to diversify the growing outdoor movement.
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An all-Black team will climb Mount Everest for the first time
The first Everest expedition made up entirely of Black Americans aims to diversify the growing outdoor movement.
Phil Henderson sees the outdoor industry like a cruise ship. It’s taken a long time for the largely white industry to embrace people of color.
But the ship has turned. Almost every corner of the industry is focused on building a diverse population of outdoor enthusiasts.
“We just need more propulsion. We need more power,” says the Cortez mountaineer who helps train guides and organizers for expeditions to the top of the world’s highest peaks. “This is our boost. We are priming that engine.”
Henderson’s plan to lead the first-ever all-Black American expedition to the top of Mount Everest will add fuel to the outdoor industry’s growing diversity movement.
The first American expedition reached the top of the world in 1963, the same year Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his culture-shifting “I Have a Dream” speech. The nine-person Full Circle Everest Expedition aims to be the first all-Black American team to summit the tallest mountain on the planet next year.
