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China has shut its side of Mount Everest to stop Tibet activists disrupting plans to carry the Olympic torch to the world’s tallest peak. Mountaineers are being denied permission to climb Everest’s north face this spring. A letter...

]]> China has shut its side of Mount Everest to stop Tibet activists disrupting plans to carry the Olympic torch to the world’s tallest peak.

Mountaineers are being denied permission to climb Everest’s north face this spring.

A letter setting out the move has been sent by the government’s China Tibet Mountaineering Association to expedition companies.

It said climbs up the Chinese side of Everest and nearby Cho-Oyu, which straddle the border between Chinese-controlled Tibet and Nepal, should be postponed.

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