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China building highway to Everest, no hotel - yet….

20/06/2007 22:02

  China on Wednesday confirmed the construction of a 110-km-long metalled highway in Tibet to Mt Everest in an attempt to provide an additional bonanza to the world at the time of the Olympics. The move has sparked off howls of protests from environmentalists while in New Delhi there has been muted anxiety over security issues. The highway is being laid on the Tibet side. It will involve leveling an unpaved track and could take about four months. Chinese authorities on Wednesday said it will press ahead with the construction despite concerns from environmentalists. They also did not rule ...

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Sergey- Kofanov`s story about the rescue of Italian Marco on Everest

05/06/2007 12:57

… after summit I should be stayed almost one and a half hour on a crest at 8500 meters. I was waiting for Sergey Larin who was the last in our team. At last, about 12 a.m. he has informed me, that he has safely gone down from the Second Step. Then I have decided that the most dangerous part of a route is already behind, and I could start go down to the camp 8300 m . Oxygen in my last cylinder was practically finished, but I not too worried as felt well enough in spite of the fact that all night I worked on a route as the first, making a track in deep snow and finding fix-ropes. To the ...

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