Tag: Mount Everest
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Coloradans among history-making team on Mount Everest
History has been claimed atop Mount Everest, and Coloradans played a role. According to The Himalayan Times, an all-Black team reached the top of the world at 29,032 feet Thursday, said to be the first to ever do so. In a social media post Friday, the team’s leader, Philip Henderson of Cortez in southwest Colorado,…
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Coloradans representing historic, all-Black mission to Everest
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thomas Moore, a young entrepreneur from Georgia, was well-traveled by 2017, having visited more than 40 countries. But when he was invited to join an expedition up Mount Kilimanjaro that year, Moore found himself unaware of the mountain or any of the other six highest…