CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agoWas Edmund Hillary actually the first to climb Everest, or just the first European?message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squareWas Edmund Hillary actually the first to climb Everest, or just the first European?CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squarepropter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 days agoSo the way I understand it is the locals probably wouldn’t have climbed it because several Himalayan peaks are sacred, but I am probably wrong.
minus-squareMardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 days agoSeveral are sacred, but there are sometimes traditions of climbing them for religious purposes (mostly in times of desperation). You know, famine stalks the land so you climb the forbidden mountain to beg the gods for mercy. But those things are usually remembered in oral history and we’ve got no record of that.
So the way I understand it is the locals probably wouldn’t have climbed it because several Himalayan peaks are sacred, but I am probably wrong.
Several are sacred, but there are sometimes traditions of climbing them for religious purposes (mostly in times of desperation).
You know, famine stalks the land so you climb the forbidden mountain to beg the gods for mercy.
But those things are usually remembered in oral history and we’ve got no record of that.