|
 LHASA, China (AP) - Environmental experts must conduct a study and give their approval before workers can build a planned paved road up to the Mount Everest base camp, a Tibet government official said Saturday.
The $20 million project — a showcase for the 2008 Olympic torch relay — was to have turned a 67-mile stone-and-dirt path into a blacktop highway that snaked from the foot of the mountain to a base camp at 17,060 feet.
But some activists have expressed concern about the road's environmental impact on the region, where global warming is causing glacial retreat.
|