Now, this highway is really going high. From AP:
China will build a $20 million blacktop highway on Mount Everest as part of the route for the Olympic torch relay, state media reported Tuesday.
Xinhua News Agency said the construction would turn a rough, 67-mile road stretching from the foot of the mountain to a base camp at 17,060 feet, into a paved “highway fenced by undulating guardrails.”
Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, is 29,035 feet tall. [Full Text]
Read also: India in a fix as China plans road to Everest from The Times of India.
