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China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-01 07:45
Skydive over highest peak
A British woman plans to make a parachute jump over Mount Qomolangma hoping to become the first woman ever to skydive over the world's highest peak, organizers said yesterday.
Holly Budge, 29, plans to throw herself out from 142 m above Qomolangma, hurtling past it, before landing in a mountain meadow at 3,764 m.
She plans to attempt her dive in October after taking off from an airstrip in Syangboche in the Khumbhu region of northeast Nepal, home to Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak at 8,844 m.
(China Daily 09/01/2008 page7)
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