dragonchef
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A couple of wings and the rest HD's. I'm the first guy on the block with an FJR...they put the bikes on a ferry across to China and rode up thru Russia, back around and on ferries and roads through Japan and back across here to Korea. This MT. Everest thing might be a great ride once the road is broke in the the olymipic hoopla is done....
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"It would have made life easier, though a lot less adventurous, for Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. China is to start building a highway to Mount Everest as part of preparations for next year's Olympics, the state media reported yesterday.
Running up to the base camp at 5,200 metres (17,000 ft), the highest of high roads will be a tarmac route with guardrails running through one of the world's most remote regions.
Xinhua news agency said the 150m yuan (£10m) project would start next week and take four months to complete. Its initial purpose is to smooth the route for the Olympic torch relay, but it will later be used to develop Everest into a resort.
"The highway will become the major route for tourists and mountaineers who are crowding on to Mt Qomolangma, known in the west as Mt Everest, in ever larger numbers," Xinhua reported.
In keeping with its towering ambitions for next year's Beijing games, China has designed the most far-reaching Olympic torch route in history. The 85,000-mile, 130-day relay will cross five continents and reach the peak of Mt Everest."
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"It would have made life easier, though a lot less adventurous, for Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. China is to start building a highway to Mount Everest as part of preparations for next year's Olympics, the state media reported yesterday.
Running up to the base camp at 5,200 metres (17,000 ft), the highest of high roads will be a tarmac route with guardrails running through one of the world's most remote regions.
Xinhua news agency said the 150m yuan (£10m) project would start next week and take four months to complete. Its initial purpose is to smooth the route for the Olympic torch relay, but it will later be used to develop Everest into a resort.
"The highway will become the major route for tourists and mountaineers who are crowding on to Mt Qomolangma, known in the west as Mt Everest, in ever larger numbers," Xinhua reported.
In keeping with its towering ambitions for next year's Beijing games, China has designed the most far-reaching Olympic torch route in history. The 85,000-mile, 130-day relay will cross five continents and reach the peak of Mt Everest."
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