<div>I am writing here to correct you the name of Mt. Everest should be Mt. Qomolangma, there is a long story behind the names, but we should use its origin name Qomolangma to repect the culture. </div> <div> </div> <div>As a Beijing native, really feel sad about this news....once this project starts, it can not be reversed...<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lloyd Wright</b> <<a href="mailto:lwright@vivacities.org">lwright@vivacities.org</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>A really bad idea...</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/19/china.highway.ap/index.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/19/china.highway.ap/index.html </a></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div> <div><b> <div><a name="11345d9fd491b63f_ContentArea"></a> <h1>China to build highway up Everest</h1> <h5>POSTED: 1332 GMT (2132 HKT), June 19, 2007 </h5></div></b> <p><b>BEIJING, China</b> (AP) -- China will build a $20 million blacktop highway on Mount Everest as part of the route for the Olympic torch relay, state media reported Tuesday.</p> <p>Xinhua News Agency said the construction would turn a rough, 67-mile road stretching from the foot of the mountain to a base camp at 17,060 feet, into a paved "highway fenced by undulating guardrails."</p> <p>Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is 29,035 feet tall.</p> <p>It said construction would start next week and would take about four months, and the new highway would become a major route for tourists and mountaineers.</p> <p>In April, organizers for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics announced ambitious plans for the longest torch relay in Olympic history -- an 85,000-mile, 130-day route that would cross five continents and scale Mount Everest. </p> <p>Taking the Olympic torch to the top of the mountain, seen by some as a way for Beijing to underscore its claims to Tibet, is expected to be one of the relay's highlights.</p> <p>China says it has ruled Tibet for centuries, although many Tibetans say their homeland was essentially an independent state for most of that time. 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