Olympic Flame Reaches Mount Everest Peak
Chinese climbers, including Han and ethnic Tibetans, summited Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, with an Olympic flame. From AP via the New York Times:
Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch — separate from the main Olympic flame — along with Chinese and Olympic flags on the peak of Mount Everest.
“One World, One Dream,” one of the climbers said on the approach to the peak, repeating the slogan for the Olympics. “We have lit the torch on top of the world,” another climber said.
For a look at what the Everest torch relay has been like for foreign journalists sent to cover it, read the Countdown to Beijing blog by the Reuters reporters.
Origin: , AP
