Mountaineering

[schajw]

Here's a sport for us White people to enjoy. Well, at least *I* enjoy it. The best climbers in the world are Whites (mostly European, some American). The Sherpas are bold in the Himalayas simply because their bodies have adapted to living at altitude. We still climb circles around them technically.


When I lived in Colorado, I rarely saw a black face in the mountains, and then only on very popular peaks (where you hike up with 500 of your closest friends). Never saw them rock climbing, or in the outdoors club I joined.

 

[Don Wassall]

Number of people who have successfully scaled Mt. Everest: roughly 2,500. Number of blacks who have done it: 1

 

[Bart]

Number of people who have successfully scaled Mt. Everest: roughly 2,500. Number of blacks who have done it: 1

Well, there goes the neighborhood.

 

[jaxvid]

Number of people who have successfully scaled Mt. Everest: roughly 2,500.  Number of blacks who have done it: 1

I understand Nike offered the guy an endorsement contract for their line of mountain climbing shoes.

 

[schajw]

I understand Nike offered the guy an endorsement contract for their line of mountain climbing shoes.

Nike climbing shoes?

Serious climbers wouldn't touch those with a 10-foot pole. Nor be swayed by some black dude hocking them.

 

[Poacher]

Number of people who have successfully scaled Mt. Everest: roughly 2,500. Number of blacks who have done it: 1

I understand Nike offered the guy an endorsement contract for their line of mountain climbing shoes.

Don't forget, they also labled him the "Tiger Woods of mountaineering."

 

[Claimjumper]

The commercialization of “Outdoorsy, Inc.” marches on unabated. Here is a “traffic jam” at the top of Mt Everest that has led to 5 deaths (although it’s been going on since the early 90s, I got a kick out of this photo)

What was once a fun escape of the real world rat race has turned into this from technical mountaineering to day hiking to skiing to campung. An overcrowded, unruly mass of people with little etiquette with traffic jams (both on foot and in car) there and back

A trail nearby me in Glenwood Springs got so bad with overcrowding that they made it by permit reservation only! Structured time and date day hiking! What fun is that

Ok I’m down from my soapbox