Olympic flame atop world’s highest summit

Climbers display the flags at the top of Mt. Qomolangma. (Photo credit: Xinhua)
(QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, Tibet, May — Chinese mountaineers carried the Olympic flame to the peak of the world’s highest mountain at around 9:10 a.m. (0110 GMT) on May 8, fulfilling the promise Beijing made in its Olympic bid.
The scaling of 8,844.43 meter […]

May 8th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments

Olympic flame goes through mountain region in third day

The Olympic flame left Ioannina to head for the mountain region, north of Greece, going through Metsovo, Grevena, Kozani and Veria on Wednesday.The flame started its third day journey in 9:00 and traversed azigzag mountain road with snow and frost on trees along Mountain Pindes before reaching Grevena.
The flame arrived Grevena in 13:30 and gave […]

March 26th, 2008 | Posted in china olympic news | No Comments