Olympics: Torch reaches summit of Mt. Everest

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Amid worldwide protests, the Olympic torch is carried by a Tibetan woman to unparalleled heights; the summit of Mount Everest. 

Exiled Tibetan officials see this a publicity stunt in very poor taste. 

"During these times when the situation in Tibet is very grave and grim we felt it is very provocative to take the Olympic torch to the Tibetan side of the mountain," said Thubten Samphel, secretary of the exiled government's information department in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala.

"The Chinese are suppressing the Tibetan people ... it is not in harmony with the spirit of the Olympics," he told Reuters.

Source: The Washington Post

Originally posted by Samantha Vicars