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The Beijing Olympic torch has reached the summit of Mount Everest at 9:15 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 7.
China has shut down the north side of Mount Everest. Now they are pressuring Nepal to implement additional restrictions that would, in practice, basically shut down the south side too.
The Beijing Olympic flame is scheduled for a summit attempt of Mount Everest as part of the traditional torch relay.
A famous mountaineer and explorer from New Zealand, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was born on July 20, 1919 and died January 11, 2008. Hillary was best known for his (along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay's) successful first summit of Mount Everest in 1953.