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Article: China Focus: Mountaineers "confident" of summit torch relay despite Lhasa unrest
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- March 22, 2008
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China Focus: Mountaineers "confident" of summit torch relay
despite Lhasa unrest by Xinhua writer Wang Cong
LHASA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese mountaineers about to take
the Olympic torch to the world's highest mountain peak said they are
ready for the torch relay despite the recent unrest in the
mountainous regional capital of Tibet.
"We are ready for the challenge. The unrest in Lhasa last week
will not change our plan to ascend Mount Qomolangma for the torch
relay," said Pemba Dondrup, a 29-year-old Tibetan athlete, who made
his first ascent to the top of the world's highest mountain in 2006.
Pemba and his teammates have just come back from training
programs started last October, for ...