Highway planned on Mt. Everest
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BEIJING -- China will build a $20 million blacktop highway on Mount Everest as part of the route for the Olympic torch relay, state media reported today. 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 ...
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 18--There's been a lot of talk about creating a regional transportation authority in northern Colorado. But that may not be as possible as it once seemed.
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It has taken a couple of generations of technological improvements, but Mount Everest, one of the most remote places on earth, is now officially overexposed.
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By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 19--(Last of three reports)   To see the future of China, take Interstate 40 to Morrisville.   Around a turn in Perimeter Park, twin buildings rise from a treeless expanse.
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DANZHU PATH, China  - Vast pyramids of logs line the road up the Nu river valley, signaling the turnings towards the Myanmar border like giant trail markers.
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale Mount Everest.
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China starts surfacing an unmade road leading to Everest base camp to aid the Olympic torch procession.
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Luckily, stretch of Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon had been closed due to a truck accident. Modern travel through the Rockies means coping with snow, rock slides.
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Governor Patrick, who wants to create 100,000 jobs in four years, inched closer to the goal by awarding state grants to build a highway offramp that one of the state's largest biopharmaceutical campuses has wanted for years. The Interstate 93 interchange will produce 100 jobs at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the company says, but Patrick estimated the long-term effect of easy highway ...
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Climbers over age 60 are three times more likely to die on Mount Everest than the average mountaineer, according to study results released Wednesday, as more older people try scaling the world's highest peak.
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The world's highest road bridge is due to be inaugurated in southern France by President Jacques Chirac before opening to traffic later this week.
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A feasibility study is under way for a plan to create the first geopark to span both sides of the Irish border.
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A route to the world's highest mountain is to be built in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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By Robert Sanchez Daily Herald Staff Writer  There's renewed hope for motorists waiting for an Eola Road interchange at I-88.
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Mount Everest should be put on a United Nations danger list as global warming threatens the Himalayan region, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
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China has started improving the road to Mount Everest on the Tibet side to make the trip to the world's highest mountain easier for bearers of the Olympic flame, Xinhua news agency reported.