Road to Everest....

When we were on our way up the pass and on to Everest Basecamp we got caught behind a group of 5 Land Cruisers...behaving badly :) We laughed at them when they ripped it up down the road and then stopped (in the middle of the road) and all the guys piled out and had cigarettes or relieved themselves - it's a dirt road and wide enough for one vehicle, when they stopped they stopped traffic.

It turned out that they were road engineers and were stopping to check out the road. We thought they might have been the builders, checking on how it was holding up, or maybe they were looking at paving it for the Olympics....turns out it's the latter:

High Way: China Plans Everest Road from the WSJ

It's a very sensitive topic...in India they are tearing China apart in the paper...

India in a fix as China plans road to Everest from the Times of India