Respected young mountaineer dies
By Tan Zongyang in Beijing and Shao Wei in Urumqi | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-13 08:07
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Yan Dongdong, 28, in Beijing after carrying the Olympic torch with other climbers to Qomolangma in May 2008. |
An amateur mountaineer, who helped take the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch to the world's highest mountain, was killed earlier this week while climbing the Tianshan Mountains in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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