Olympic Tourch scales Mount Everest

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The Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday morning, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air of the earth's highest point.

A 23-year-old Tibetan woman, Tsering Wangmo, carried the flame atop the peak. She was the last of five climbers -- three Tibetans and two Han Chinese -- to pass the torch to each other near the summit.

Once there, the mountaineers removed their masks so television cameras could record their faces and so they could shout and cheer their feat.

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  • So touched. The spirit of Olympics

  • ya, it is everest's summit...

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  • They never reached the summit...the background does not look like any footage of Everest ever taken, even previous Chinese footage shot on ascents up the Tibet side. And where are all the old prayer flags that previous climbers have left on the summit? You always see two-to- three years' worth of flags and mementos placed by other climbers. And they are walking too vigorously to be at 8800 meters. Another Chinese Communist Party stunt foisted on the world.

  • they didnot reach the summit.. i can see snow mountain behind them..if they have reach the top of mt everest there should be no mountain in the back.

  • Oxigen Mask was needed in Beijin city!!

  • Bravo China. Bravo Han and Tibetan Chinese mountaineers! Absolutely impressive.

  • arafel1964, you talk really like Nazi. Maybe you can "share" more of your personal experience in how you persecute and suffocate voices of 3rd world countris.

  • Way to go, China.

    Go Beijing Olympic Go!!!

    Hearty Wish all the best to motherland China prosperous and strong

  • go China go!!!

  • I thought Tsering Wangmo is only 19?

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