Olympic-Security Troops Block Everest Bloggers’ Climb
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Climbers on Mount Everest's south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China's Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week.With a news blackout in effect since Monday at the Everest base camp -- and no news media at camps farther up the mountain -- the situation is being chronicled only by a smattering of international climber/bloggers.
"We saw lots of military staff and one solider carrying a very sophisticated sniper type of gun," Jim Curtin wrote on his blog Monday.
Curtin has been blogging his ascent of Everest for several weeks but is now stuck at Camp 2, at 21,000 feet.
Over the last several days his blog has chronicled the frustrating wait as Nepalese soldiers block climbers from ascending the mountain.
Nepalese soldiers have closed the summit until the Chinese torch run is made, which is expected between May 1 and May 10, depending on the weather. Italian bloggers captured a picture of Nepalese soldiers on the 27th, seen above.
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