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posted by Jay @ 6/23/2007, ,




Everest Road - Blacktop to Basecamp
June 20, 2007


BEIJING -- China plans to build a highway on the side of Mount Everest to pave the way for the Olympic torch's journey to the peak of the world's tallest mountain.

In April, organizers of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics announced ambitious plans for the longest torch relay in Olympic history -- a 137,000-kilometer, 130-day route that will cross five continents and scale Mount Everest.

The Xinhua news agency reported yesterday that construction of the road, budgeted at 150 million yuan ($19.7 million) would turn a 108-kilometer rough path from the foot of the 8,850-meter-tall mountain to a base camp at 5,200 meters "into a blacktop highway fenced by undulating guardrails."

Xinhua said construction of the road would start next week and would take about four months to complete.

An official from the Secretariat of the Tibetan government confirmed the project was planned, but declined to give details. Routes from Tibet and Nepal are the most commonly used to go up the mountain.

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posted by Jay @ 6/20/2007, ,




AEE Rocky Mountain Regional Conference Keynote Speech, April 7, 2006
June 05, 2007

Experiential Education:
A Fragile and Incomplete Project
by Jay Roberts, Assistant Prof and Education Director of
Wilderness Programs at Earlham College

"The time is right for Experiential Education as a field to take a hard look at where we are and the future challenges and possibilities that lie before us. I believe our work in this field is both fragile and incomplete...

...and I hope to share with you both my concerns and my hopes for the field as we move forward...I am not cynical about the future. I have hope for our field and for the project of education in the United States. I believe now, perhaps more than ever, we need the values, beliefs, and ideals of experiential education for our children. But this hope is not a blind optimism. There are forces allied against such a vision of the future. There is much work to be done. So I have a hope without illusion and I would like to share this vision with you as we look toward the future of our schools, and our democracy."

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