As the Olympic torch makes its way around the world before arriving in Beijing for the games in August, the BBC’s Jonah Fisher joins it for the high point of its trip - on Mount Everest. In the third of his diary instalments, he arrives at Mount Everest national park.
The first part of our high speed - even more highly managed - tour of Tibet is nearing its end. Everest is at last in sight, and we should reach it sometime on Monday.
The smiles on the faces of the Beijing Olympic Committee representatives say it all.
Despite the best efforts of us international journalists to find someone to express a slightly pro-Tibetan thought, we have not found anybody.
Having been blocked from going to the capital Lhasa, we have been forced into a strict routine of brisk starts in the morning followed by a long day of driving, with pauses for “attractions” en route.
Click here for the second instalment of the diary:
