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A Highway to Mount Everest
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6-19-2007 6:24 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ee8bd72b-bd53-4806-9a6c-f7ef0c876ecf/7B3A436D-E630-474E-8E87-961E5ADE0876/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gadling.com/2007/06/19/how-convenient-a-highway-to-mount-everest/" href="http://www.gadling.com/2007/06/19/how-convenient-a-highway-to-mount-everest/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gadling.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gadling.com/2007/06/19/how-convenient-a-highway-to-mount-everest/">As if Mount Everest isn't getting enough traffic and trash....China announced it would start <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2106325,00.html">building a highway</A> right up to the base camp at 5,200 meters (17,000 feet) next week. Guardian reports. They want to get it completed by next year's Olympic Games to accommodate the influx of tourists.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gadling.com/2007/06/19/how-convenient-a-highway-to-mount-everest/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gadling.com/img/ADB6D9E3-3A40-4CF9-815E-70DA933552C5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gadling.com/2007/06/19/how-convenient-a-highway-to-mount-everest/"><P>Ain't free market economy grand?</p> <P>Not only that, in preparation for the Olympics, China has also designed the most far-reaching Olympic torch route in history: 85,000-mile, 130-day relay crossing five continents and scaling the 8,850-meter peak of Mount Everest.</p> <P>What's next? A lift up to the top?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7B3A436D-E630-474E-8E87-961E5ADE0876/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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