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ON A HIGH: Officials celebrate at base camp as a Chinese mountaineering team with Olympic torch make their way. (Pic: AP)

ON A HIGH: Officials celebrate at base camp as a Chinese mountaineering team with Olympic torch make their way. (Pic: AP)

Heights of adventure: Olympics torch reaches Mt Everest

A team of Chinese climbers on Thursday carried the Olympic flame to the 8,848-m summit of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.State television broadcast live pictures of the climbers reaching the summit and displaying the Olympic flame in several special high-altitude, wind-proof torches on the summit of Everest in China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

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