ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་མྱུལ་དཔྱད་ ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཆ། YOUR EXPEDITION. YOUR LANGUAGE

MARSHALL MCLUHAN SAID THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE, AND WHEN THAT MEDIUM IS ENGLISH YOU CAN ONLY GET A PART OF THE ALPINISM MESSAGE. THOUGH WE OPERATE IN A MIX OF ENGLISH AND MANDARIN, FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS HAS NO SPECIFIC NATION IT CATERS TO, AND INSTEAD TRIEDS TO SYNCRETIZE WHAT ALL NATIONS HAVE BOUGHT TO ALPINISM. JAPANESE, POLISH, ITALIAN, AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH, FRENCH, IRANIAN, RUSSIAN, CZECH AND LOTS OF OTHERS HAVE ALL MADE WHAT ALPINISM IS TODAY, WITH THE LANGUAGES OF EACH CULTURE MAKING UP THE SPORTS LEXICON.

CLICKING ON THE GLOBE ICON IN THE BOTTOM LEFT, THIS SITE TRANSLATES INTO THE 12 LANGUAGES WE SEE THE MOST ENQUIRIES FROM, AND OBVIOUSLY GOOGLE CAN TRANSLATE IT INTO HUNDREDS MORE (EXCEPT TIBETAN WHICH ANNOYS US). THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE RESOURCE THAT HAS THE CAPACITY TO EVOLVE CLIMBING AS MUCH AS ANY GEAR OR TRAINING CAN, BY CLIMBERS FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES TEAMING UP TO BRING WHAT THEIR IDEAS, TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE GAME.

FOR OUR OWN SAKE, FEEDING THE RAT EXPEDITIONS WANTS TO EXPAND AS FAR BEYOND ENGLISH AS WE CAN, ALREADY COLLABORATING WITH PARTNERS INCLUDING ITALIAN, POLISH, JAPANESE, FRENCH AND OF COURSE CHINESE, TIBETAN, UYGHER AND KYRGYZ ON THE GROUND. WITH THE EASE OF TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY WE CAN COMFORTABLY COMBINE IDEAS ACROSS MANY CULTURES IN REAL TIME AMONG REAL PEOPLE, MEANING OUR TRIPS PROCEED USING A BASE OF KNOWLEDGE THAT IS VAST.