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Heights of adventure: Olympics torch reaches Mt Everest
Published on Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:40, Updated on Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:05 in World section
Tags: Olympics Torch, Mount Everest , Beijing
ON A HIGH: Officials celebrate at base camp as a Chinese mountaineering team with Olympic torch make their way. (Pic: AP)
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Beijing: A team of Chinese climbers on Thursday carried the Olympic flame to the 8,848-m summit of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.
State television broadcast live pictures of the climbers reaching the summit and displaying the Olympic flame in several special high-altitude, wind-proof torches on the summit of Everest in China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The entire team of 12 climbers appeared to have reached the summit, raising Olympic and Beijing 2008 flags and sending goodwill messages to television viewers as they stood on the peak as light snow fell.
State media said the team was led by Nima Ciren, head of the Lhasa Mountaineering Guide School in Tibet, and included seven other Tibetans.
The official Xinhua news agency said the team held a 30-m torch relay on the summit.
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We Tibetan will not accept this Olympic torch relay on Mount Everest as a success one. The Chinese govt main
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