The Olympic Torch reaches Mount Everest
The Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday morning, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air of the earth’s highest point.
A 23-year-old Tibetan woman — the youngest member of the expedition — carried the flame atop the peak. Once there, the mountaineers removed their masks so television cameras could record their faces and so they could shout and cheer their feat.
