After her landmark summit of the 8,848m mountain last week, the business executive says she now knows ‘how big a deal it is’ for black African womenSouth African climber Saray Khumalo speaks to AFP in an interview in Kathmandu on May 23, 2019, after her record breaking climb to be the first black African woman to summit Everest.
Although she had not thought about being the first when she reached the top, she now knows “how big a deal it is” for black African women. “Now it is up to us to take it to the next level and I’m hoping someone picks up the baton and does something amazing.” “What has worked in my favour is the learning I have taken from every summit, every interaction with the sherpas and the climbers, and every experience that I’ve had,” she said. “It’s just confirmed that giving up is never an option because the summit could be just the next step.”“I was shaken. I was very naive as a climber. Knowing what I know today, I shouldn’t have been on the mountain,” she said.
“That made me a lot more cautious this year, it made me realise I can’t take anything for granted. It doesn’t matter how close I am until I get back to base camp.”“When I got to Camp 2 it was the first time I cried. Somebody said congratulations and I didn’t know how to react. Maybe it wasn’t his time, but even knowing that and knowing the risks of the mountain doesn’t make it easy,” she said.
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