'Chinese Soldiers' Shoot At Climbers In Nepal
Two American climbers claim that men in Chinese military uniforms shot at them in an area of Nepal close to the Chinese border
Posted: 1 October 2002
by Jon
An alarming story on the Outside Magazine web site where two
American mountaineer climbing in a border region of Nepal say they
were shot at by Chinese soldiers.
The climbers were around three days walk from Namche and eight
miles from the border with China when the incident took place while
they were walking in to attempt 24,114-foot Nangpa Gossum, the
highest of the new peaks opened up by the Nepalese government in an
attempt to lure back climbers wary of the Maoist insurrection.
Full story here
on the Outside web site.
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