At 8,848 metres (29,029 feet), Mount Everest it the tallest mountain in the world. Since Sir Edmund Hillary’s legendary ascent to the peak of Mount Everest in 1953, over 3,700 people have succesfully made the difficult and dangerous climb. While both Chinese and the Nepalese people always claim that Mount Everest (and its peak) belongs to their [...]
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What the Torch on Mount Everest Means for the Tibetan People
Posted by Robert Vance on May 3rd, 2008
Hmmm. I wonder what first words the Dalai Lama’s envoy will choose tommorrow when it meets with the Chinese government in Beijing? Could they be to effect of, “do you have to rub your torch in our faces by dragging it through our province and up the tallest mountain in the world which also happens to be in [...]
My Journey to Mount Everest
Posted by Robert Vance on April 13th, 2008
While I did not climb Mount Everest when I arrived at its base in 2006, my journey to the world’s tallest mountain left me feeling a little bit like I had scaled its heights. In fact, there were different times during my journey that I almost gave up on going to see it. Traveling alone in Tibet as [...]
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