AN ALL-black team of climbers have made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest for the very first time.
The Full Circle Everest team is made up of a group of black climbers and mountaineers, who were attempting a summit of the world’s highest mountain.
Seven members of the team reached the summit according to a statement released on Full Circle Everest’s Instagram page.
Team leader Phil Henderson wrote: “I am deeply honoured to report that seven members of the Full Circle Everest team reached the summit on May 12.
“While a few members, including myself, did not summit, all members of the climb and Sherpa teams have safely returned to Base Camp where we will celebrate this historic moment!”
The group was founded by Mr Henderson, who is an experienced climber and renowned instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Wyoming.
The seven team members from Full Circle Everest who reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday are: Manoah Ainuu, Eddie Taylor, Rosemary Saal, Thomas Moore, Demond Mullins, James “KG” Kagami, and Evan Green.
The team were supported by other team members including Mr Henderson, Frederick Campbell and Abby Dione.
According to CNN, approximately 4,000 people have summitted Mount Everest, but only eight of them have been black.
Full Circle said they are determined to push for better representation in the outdoor sector for black and brown climbers and inspire a new generation of mountaineers.
Writing on Instagram Mr Henderson added: “From their first steps out of Everest Base Camp, @fullcircleeverest broke new ground.
“As the first all-Black team to attempt the summit, they brought representation to the highest place on Earth — and into the global outdoor community.”
The team set up a GoFundMe to fund the expedition and were supported by The North Face and the VF Foundation.
Even though the first recorded expeditions to Mount Evert were in 1921, it wasn’t until 1953, when people were able to reach the top.
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, and Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, were the first pair to complete the 29,032-foot deadly climb together, on May 29, 1953.
In 2003, Sibusiso Vilane from South Africa became the first black man to reach the peak.
Three years later, Sophia Danenberg became the first African American and black woman to summit.
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According to our Caucasian historians; academics and writers their ancestors discovered the new world: the Americas, the Caribbean, Australia and a host of Pacific Islands.
One basic problem.
Everywhere the Caucasian Gentile Western Christian Capitalists European travelled, native people of colour were there FIRST.
Caucasian Gentile Western Capitalists European like to believe they were the first to climb Mount Everest- Mount Everest is named in honour of Sir George Everest: Caucasian named Africa’s Lake Victoria in honour of Her Majesty. Australia’s Uluru was renamed Ayers Rock.
It clearly comforts Caucasian Europeans to act and believe as if nothing happened on Planet Earth without Western Caucasian direction and input.
But please African-heritage people, do not copy the childish behaviour of Caucasian Gentile western European men and women whenever an accomplishment outside our expect norms is achieved.
History reveals whilst Caucasian were still in the caves of cold Western Europe, African people had travelled and occupied lands as far as Australia.
Therefore, headlines such as “History made! First all-Black American team reaches the top of Mount Everest,” only make any sense if ones believes that only Caucasian-heritage people mapped; visited and discovered the wonderful lands of Planet Earth.