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Off topic: Rally for Tibet 6-May-2008 At 8:29:33 AM GravityHound

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On 5/05/2008 Sabu wrote:
>Well aparently they're working their way up the mountain now, the ban on
>other expeditions lasts until may 10 so they have quite a small window
>(not that the weather window is very big anyway..) and typically the whole
>event is under a complete media blackout, suppose its just incase they
>they mess everything up.
>
>Also the Chinese climbers have a total of 16 torches with them (does that
>count?).
>

they are obviously trying not leaving anything to chance with 16 torches. man, talk about contingency plans "we just lost another climber, send up someone else that loves the mother country and make sure they are carrying torch number 13".

i dont think it matters what the weather does actually i dont think anything matters. With the media blackout they can claim they made it even when they didnt. we will probably never know what really happened....