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LHASA, China (AP) - Tibet has put on hold plans to build a highway on the side of Mount Everest aimed at easing the Olympic torch's journey to its peak, a government official said Friday.
The $20 million project was to have turned a 67-mile rough path into a blacktop highway that snaked from the foot of the mountain to a base camp at 17,060 feet.
"The paved road project is on hold," Ju Jianhua, director of Tibet's Foreign Affairs Department, told The Associated Press. He refused to give a reason or any other details.
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