PEKING, Renter: An international rally along China’s ancient Silk Road started early on Sunday, the Peking Evening News said.
It said dozens of cars, motorcycles and support vehicles left Tiananmen Square in ‘central Peking en route to Urumgi, capital of the Western region of Xinjiang along the route used by traders from Europe and the Middle East hundreds of years ago.
Most of the 7,500-km (4,700 mile) rally route passes through areas not normally ‘open to foreigners, much of it desert and high plateau, the paper said,
KATHMANDU, Reuter: Japanese climber Shinichi Baba fell to his death during a descent from a failed attempt on the Himalayan summit of Gyachung Kang, the Nepal tourism ministry said on Sunday.
It said Baba, 28, a salesman from Kiyama, slipped and fell 1,000 meters (3.300 feet) 10 his death on October 17 after funning out of daylight in his attempt to scale the 7,952-meter (26,089 feet) peak north-west of Everest.
The expedition of eight Japanese and three Nepali climbers led by Mitsuo Uematsu 51, from Fukuoka, abandoned its attempt on Gyuachung Kang after Baba’s death, the ministry said
Baba, who had almost reached the expedition’s fourth camp at 7,300 meters (24,000 feet) when he fell, was the second Japanese climber killed on the mountain,
Article extracted from this publication >> October 28, 1988
