China frees 5 US protestors against 2008 Olympics
This anti-Beijing Olympics story made me grin, and wonder, how on earth did the Chinese manage to arrest 5 Americans at 17000 feet in a place outside of China?
I thought perhaps with times a-changing and global warming, Everest had melted into Tibet, but wherever you look, the base camp of the mighty mountain still resides in Nepal.
Is it possible that the Americans climbed Everest from the Tibet side? This explains why they would have been under the jurisdiction of Tibetan/Chinese guides whilst in Nepal. But to be arrested at what everyone refers to as Everest basecamp, the American climbers would have had to climb Everest, descend from the summit into Nepal where the Chinese guides then arrested them and presumably carried their exhausted asses back over Everest and down into Tibet? I don't think so.
If anyone can explain the full story, please let me know. I don't get the logistics of it at all, and for once, I find this atrocity leveled at the Chinese authorities to be a little overblown.
Hey Beijing, any chance of lifting the ban on The Pisstakers for this hopeless moment of pro-Chinese propaganda? I will send you some gummi bears, loads of red ones.
Update: Apparently, as a result of the slight confusion over the location of the arrests, the Digital Journal story itself may be developing into an international incident in its own right. It may require a delicately worded press release from Beijing to nip it in the bud!
Updated update: Driven to research a story beyond the end of my nose, the Reuters people say the Americans were in fact encamped on the Tibet side of the mountain. That blows my image of 5 blokes strapped to the backs of yak or sherpas en route to Beijing via the 29000 foot summit. Oh well.
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Everest has relocated?
I thought perhaps with times a-changing and global warming, Everest had melted into Tibet, but wherever you look, the base camp of the mighty mountain still resides in Nepal.
Superhuman Chinese guides?
Is it possible that the Americans climbed Everest from the Tibet side? This explains why they would have been under the jurisdiction of Tibetan/Chinese guides whilst in Nepal. But to be arrested at what everyone refers to as Everest basecamp, the American climbers would have had to climb Everest, descend from the summit into Nepal where the Chinese guides then arrested them and presumably carried their exhausted asses back over Everest and down into Tibet? I don't think so.
Is this story a crock of anti-Chinese wang poo?
If anyone can explain the full story, please let me know. I don't get the logistics of it at all, and for once, I find this atrocity leveled at the Chinese authorities to be a little overblown.
Hey Beijing, any chance of lifting the ban on The Pisstakers for this hopeless moment of pro-Chinese propaganda? I will send you some gummi bears, loads of red ones.
Update: Apparently, as a result of the slight confusion over the location of the arrests, the Digital Journal story itself may be developing into an international incident in its own right. It may require a delicately worded press release from Beijing to nip it in the bud!
Updated update: Driven to research a story beyond the end of my nose, the Reuters people say the Americans were in fact encamped on the Tibet side of the mountain. That blows my image of 5 blokes strapped to the backs of yak or sherpas en route to Beijing via the 29000 foot summit. Oh well.
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