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China Building Highway To Everest

The unmade road to Everest Base Camp is being black-topped in preparation for the Olympics.


Posted: 19 June 2007
by Jon

China is to build a full-on highway all the way to Everest Base Camp on the northern side of the mountain as part of the preparations for the Olympics.

Reports say that the highway will be a 'black-top tarmac route with guardrails' running right up to 5200 metres at the base of the world's highest mountain. Its initial purpose is to ease the passage of the Olympic torch relay to the mountain, where it will be carried to the summit, but after the games it will open up the mountain for tourists and mountaineers.

Base Camp on the Tibetan side of the mountain is already accessible by vehicle, but it's a rough, unmade road. The new £10 million project is a far more serious undertaking and should allow coachloads of senior citizens to access the mountain with ease.

More details at www.guardian.co.uk and news.bbc.co.uk


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I think this is just criminal. It seems like the Chinese government jsut dont care for any of natures most amazing places. They destroyed the Yangzee valley to make a resevoir, and now theyre going to make one of the most inacessable places on earth accessable, and get even more tourists on a mountain thats practically crowded already.

Never knew they were going to take the olympic torch up the mountain though, I wonder how they will manage that.

Posted: 22/06/2007 at 08:13

What is worse, is that this was reported in the Sun as China building a highway to Everest in "the Chinese region of Tibet".

Further example of how the Chinese are slowly working to destory Tibettan culture.

Posted: 22/06/2007 at 09:21

Just usual for China.. Classified as a 'developing nation' so non-annex 1 (Kyoto) but they are building coal powered stations every week..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6769743.stm

Surely China should be classified as an Annex 1 nation (industrial)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change#Annex_I_countries

I'm just studying climate change at the moment and it really makes me sick that a nation like China should be in the same UNFCCC classification as a nation such as e.g. Mali or even India.

Posted: 22/06/2007 at 23:09

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