Mount Everest

This week's open threads will focus on Black Explorers. In 2006 Sophia Danenberg became the first African American and first black woman from anywhere in the world to climb the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest in the Himalayas.   Sophia Marie Scott was born in 1972 in Homewood, Illinois (a southern suburb of Chicago) to a Japanese mother and black father. She … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Black Explorers