Olympic flame arrives at Everest summit
The Olympic flame has reached the peak of Mount Everest.
Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch along with Chinese and Olympic flags on the top of the world’s tallest mountain.
The 19-member team broke camp at 27,390 feet about four hours before dawn in hopes of reaching the 29,035-foot peak around midmorning.
The climb up Everest is a spectacular feat organisers of the Beijing Olympics hoped would underscore China’s ambitions for this August’s games.
