Two links I’ve been storing up during the MT switchover:
Women turn back short of Everest summit. Quote: “The climb was billed as the first by an all-woman team attempting to summit Everest. The women were accompanied by two male guides, a male photographer and eight Nepali sherpas.”
Um, excuse me, but how in the world can that be described as an “all-woman team”? Assuming the sherpas are male, that’s five women and 11 men. My real argument here isn’t about gender: it’s about the shoddy treatment that the Nepali sherpas always get in Everest summit stories. These folks carry all the gear and climb just as far as the white folks who get the pub, but they get no attention. Sir Edmund Hillary gets the title and the fame, Tenzing Norgay gets forgotten. (Well, not forgotten, but you get my point.) Now these sherpas are evidently not even human, since it’s an “all-woman” team.
And, totally unrelated, Samsung means to come.
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i think i need a Nepali sherpa for my everyday tasks.
Thank you! You’re right about the sherpas/pub thing, but don’t call something an “all-woman team” when the said women can’t get themselves up Everest without a slew of men guiding them. How embarrassing. It’s just like the military and fire departments weenie-ing down the physical requirements for women trainees, simply because they’re women. Ladies, if you can’t take the heat …