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Mount Everest Officially Over

May 8, 2008 at 1:06 PM | 1 Comment

Mountaineering types and adventure travel advocates are always hyping their accomplishments--until too many people follow in their footsteps. We can officially call Mt. Everest done-ski now that the Olympic Torch has made it to the summit.

When a team of torch runners can just say, "Let's take this thing up there," you know it's gotten too easy to just cruise up the mountain. Well, maybe easy is a bit of a stretch:

The summit attempt had been repeatedly delayed because of bad weather, and the team had been forced to sit for days at various high camps.

The group of ethnic Tibetan climbers and Chinese journalists must've been a lonely on the climb: China barred access to the summit earlier this year to keep any pro-Tibetan protests from marring the mountain-top torch run.

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· Olympic Torch Reaches Everest Peak [NYT]
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[Photo: Xinhua]