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Dispatches 5/8/2003:
Please marry me! Everest as my love proof
Can you imagine the place where the most romantic
marriage proposal is underway? The Everest will be
surely listed on the item. Yesterday, by speaking out
the word "marry me", Big Xiong deeply moved his girl
friend Yu Zhang who had made a long trek and got to
the base camp to cheer his boy friend climbing the
Zhangzi Apices.

They had been in love for many years. On May 2, Yu Zhang struggled to the
5100m base-camp getting over a bad lot of trouble. When Big Xiong came back to
the camp at 5:00 p.m. yesterday, he found his girl friend just waiting for him
there. To everyone's surprise, he walked out of the camp immediately, found
some elders in the team and asked them to come with him. At the moment no one
knew what would happen. They just saw Big Xiong walked towards Yu Zhang who
was sitting on the spring bed, kneeled down, and said, "Everest as my love
proof, please marry me!"

Color graphics had been taken by the color-display Report Group of China
SOHU at the attitude of 6666 meters. Report group: at 12:10 today, Yongfeng
Wang (captain of the team) and Chaoyang Zhang (vice-captain) began their
mountain-climbing tour. They reached the altitude of 6666m at 13:44, and took
some color pictures that had been sent back. For the moment they had started
to get back and they were supposed to return to the Base Camp tonight. Because
of the heavy wind up the mountain, they held together hand in hand to conquer
the big trouble. (Mu Zhao) The moment witnessed by history: a wonderful
wedding in the Base Camp Reported by China SOHU color-display group: Today at
3:00 p.m., a special wedding was going on in the Everest Base Camp. The famous
mountaineer Liangpu Yu presided over the wedding ceremony as the presider and
chief witness of the espousal. Yongfeng Wang, Chaoyang Zhang, and Zhixin Li
(vice-president of the mountaineering association) all fervidly congratulated
on their marriage in succession.

SOHU color-display report group: the team won't change the plan of
struggling for the zenith Message from the Everest Base Camp by the SOHU
report group: the rhythm of mountain climbing had been disturbed by the
continued heavy wind. At 13:00 on May 6, the magnates of the team- Yongfeng
Wang (captain), Liangpu Yu (deputy commander in chief), and Nima Ciren
gathered in urgency to talk over the measure they should take in the near
future. And they were most likely to agree that they stick to the original
climbing plan. According to the original plan, the week duration of climbing
the zenith is from May 11 to 18. On May 11, all the members of Group A and
Group B will set out from the Base Camp and arrive at the march-camp on May
12. After one day's break on May 13, Group A should step on the north col
first on May 14 and get to the 7790m-camp on May 15. On May 16 the members of
Group A should walk into the 8300m-on rush camp before the final zenith
climbing on May 17. While the action of Group B will be postponed one day
compared to that of Group B. (Mu Zhao)

Gale attacked the base camp again, and the staff rebuilt their homestead
together. SOHU color-display report group: gale attacked the Everest base camp
again last night, and many tents were destroyed in a moment. The members of
SOHU mountaineering team and the report group tried their best to save the
materials left and rebuilt their homestead together on the Everest base camp.
They fought with the trouble bravely together till 13:00 today, and all the
destroyed tents were put up again. The spirit of all the fighters in the base
camp is in a good state now, and they have got ready to encounter another
harder battle. (Haimin Yu)

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