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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | People are like, why would your team do ever? |
0:12.0 | Why would you do these things? |
0:13.0 | I mean, this is like a mountain that everybody knows. |
0:16.0 | 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 |
0:46.0 | 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 |
1:12.0 | dog park. |
1:13.0 | 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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