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China Plans Road to Everest for 2008 Beijing Olympics

Filed in archive Mountain Climbing by Terah Shelton on June 19, 2007

China Plans Road to Everest for 2008 Beijing Olympics
In preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympicslinks, China plans to build a road on the side of Mount Everest. The road is expected to cost a whooping $19.7 million dollars and 'would turn a 67-mile rough path from the foot of the mountain to a base camp at 17,060 feet "into a blacktop highway fenced by undulating guardrails'. Veteran climber Ed Viesturs doesn't expect the road to hinder climbers.

Xinhua said construction, which would start next week, would take about four months. The new highway would become a major route for tourists and mountaineers, it said.

An official from the Secretariat of the Tibetan government, who declined to give his name, confirmed the project was planned, but refused to give any details. Tibet and Nepal are the most commonly used routes up the mountain.

In April, organizers for the Beijing Summer Olympics announced ambitious plans for the longest torch relay in Olympic history - an 85,000-mile, 130-day route that would cross five continents and reach the 29,035-foot summit of Everest.

Taking the Olympic torch to the top of the mountain, seen by some as a way for Beijing to underscore its claims to Tibet, is expected to be one of the relay's highlights.

China says it has ruled Tibet for centuries, although many Tibetans say their homeland was essentially an independent state for most of that time. Chinese communist troops occupied Tibet in 1951, and Beijing continues to rule the region with a heavy hand.


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