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JHH60 wrote:I hear there may have been one or two OK climbers from central Asia. Called Sherpas or something like that. Probably never climbed anything serious though.

HandjamMasterC wrote:I asked a black guy I worked with once why more blacks didn't climb. He said " we're not crazy enought to go in the woods with some white guys with a rope ............. "

JHH60 wrote:I hear there may have been one or two OK climbers from central Asia. Called Sherpas or something like that. Probably never climbed anything serious though.

MoapaPk wrote:About 5.5 years ago, I knocked myself out on a lunge move, and fell about 25' at Red Rock. After I woke up, I was able to downclimb and walk out, but went to nearby Summerlin Hospital to have a CT scan.

I was asked several times to explain the accident, and at first all the listeners responded with indifference. Finally I was asked again by the radiologist, a Black woman, and she responded, "Hon, don't rock climb; it makes no sense."

1000Pks wrote:

Would they have ever bothered to climb/desecrate their holy mountains as porters without the insistence of the Europeans and Englishmen who invented the sport?

Well, here in the Pacific West, we have many indications that Native Americans climbed the peaks, with even living structures up to 11,000 feet. Sadly even the NPS promotes a hateful slight to them, being that Lassen Peak firsts were credited to "white" people, as I suppose Native American claims are ignored or disregarded.

I thought I read similar about Mt. Fuji in Japan. I think Japanese lore states that it had been climbed, many times in ancient times, there's nothing that hard about that. In the style of the 1850's, it was to be credited to others, or something like that.

Sounds like more racial arrogance that many claims even in the Sierra have been made, to firsts, as Native Americans are simply not in the picture. While the Himalayas are a different story, as the Moon and other recent technology enabled events, there has been some claims or even evidence that Asians were the first to CA and the West Coast, by adrift fishing boats and even Chinese junks. Some in the MLC SC refute even that there was a Christopher Columbus and all, that white people were here first and always here, making them the original inhabitants and therefore not immigrants, just more of their hate science.

You can speak with these people, directly if you choose, the SC knows who they are. Disturbing that some of them are high ranked government, and well known even to higher ranking people, with apparent full approval!

kheegster wrote:Really dumb question, but what's the MLC SC?

1000Pks wrote:I thought I read similar about Mt. Fuji in Japan. I think Japanese lore states that it had been climbed, many times in ancient times, there's nothing that hard about that. In the style of the 1850's, it was to be credited to others, or something like that.