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Wild Ideas Worth Living

Climbing Everest with Eddie Taylor

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This spring, Eddie Taylor will be one of the climbers making history on the first all-Black team to attempt to summit Mount Everest.

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People are like, why would your team do ever?

0:12.0

Why would you do these things?

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I mean, this is like a mountain that everybody knows.

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And I think this didn't start out as like a trip about representation.

0:21.0

But if you have a team of all black climbers going to climb out and

0:24.0

how can you not talk about representation and the fact that like there's only been

0:28.0

10 black people who have summited out of thousands upon thousands.

0:34.0

In April 2022, a group of climbers will make history as the first all black

0:39.0

team to attempt to summit Mount Everest.

0:42.0

Their trek is called the full circle expedition and any tailor is one of the

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participants.

0:47.0

Eddie lives in Colorado and he's pretty entrenched in the climbing community.

0:51.0

Before work and on the weekends, Eddie is out scaling rock faces or

0:56.0

ice climbing frozen waterfalls.

0:58.0

Even though Eddie has done some pretty no or the outdoor trips on some of the

1:02.0

biggest mountains in the world, he'd never thought much about climbing Everest.

1:06.0

That all changed when he met full circle expedition leader Phil Henderson at the

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dog park.

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It was in the morning before we were going ice climbing and just had to get my

1:17.0

puppy some exercise before he was cooped up all day.

1:20.0

And we chatted a little bit and then I saw him here and there over that weekend.

1:24.0

And basically before I left the last day, we ran into him as he was leaving the

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