Changing China
Giant on the move
Day 14 – Mission accomplished
The Beijing Olympic torch is held aloft at the top of Mount Everest on Thursday in this image taken from television footage.
Three months to the day before the Games open, members of a 31-strong team reached the top of the 8,848-metre (29,030-ft) peak carrying the Olympic flame in a lantern before lighting the torch.
The climbing team, which included 22 Tibetans, eight Han Chinese and one man from the Tujia minority, had been on the mountain for more than a week preparing the route along the north-east ridge.
Take a look at Nick’s story about the moment so many Chinese have been waiting for.
But the trip is more than just another stopover on the Olympic torch’s journey around the world, read about the controversy and the deep symbolism surrounding the project.
Our Reuters team of Nick, Dave and Mark will be in touch with a us soon to give a personal account of today’s achievement.
This is normal, it happens in all countries…
It arrived.
Some 5,000 VIPs, cheering workers and media gathered on Tiananmen Square on Monday to welcome the Beijing Olympic flame and launch the 137,000-km torch relay.
Many westerners just feel threatened by the development of China, the China they can’t control. Human right and Tibet are just convenient tools for them to bashing China. Many of these guys make a living by trying to bring down China.
To the crowd of “if china is so great, why so many people leave china…., has any one claimed that china in general is greater than US and West europe? Even in the greatest country in this world, people still leave for whatever reason. I am glad so many Chinese spreaded to the rest of the world, so they can see the true face of the western countries and fight against all the injustice against chinese.
China has a lot of problems, you can bash China or make fun of China all the way you want, but at the end of the day China is geting better and better.
I really doubt whether this Mr Thompson has been to Tibet or not. He says there’s hardly seen any pictures/photos of Dalai Lama in Tibet, but on my trip to Lhasa last year, I could see nearly his picture in every monastery, and in some families. Mr Thompson, just live back to the 60s and 70s please, that’s the time of the Culture Revolution, for which you always have a lot to talk about.