For the first time, relatively isolated Tibet is accessible to the Chinese masses, even if you have to briefly don an oxygen mask to get to the lan ...

LHASA, China, July 3 -- -- LHASA, China, July 3 -- After rolling under snow-covered peaks and crossing 2,500 miles, the first train ever to travel from Beijing to Tibet pulled into a station here ...

The first train from Lhasa Railway Station travels on the Tibetan grasslands near Lhasa, Tibet Saturday July 1, 2006. China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet on the world's ...

Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our nonprofit ...

Two-thousand-five-hundred miles over two days, a journey through some of China’s biggest cities, long stretches of countryside and over the world’s highest-altitude railroad pass: The Lhasa ...

ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS - Chugging past shaggy yaks and fluffy clouds that look low enough to lasso, the train from Beijing to Lhasa makes its final climb into nosebleed territory pulled ...

It was not until 2000, when she met her partner, Wang Lixiong—an expert on Tibet, though he is Han Chinese—that she began to write critically about Chinese rule over Tibet. In 2003, the ...

2005-02-24 04:00:00 PDT Tuotuohe, China-- In this muddy truck stop along the Qinghai-Tibet highway, Zhao, the Chinese owner of the Lanzhou Handmade Noodle Tavern, reminisced about the good old ...

Putting the Tibet Train Hubbub in Perspective Some 160 correspondents applied for 40 foreign media spots on a new railway's maiden voyage to Tibet from Beijing. But some Chinese and Tibetans ...

The first train route from Beijing to Tibet opened Monday. The route is the highest railway in the world, and because of this passengers suffered altitude sickness during the trip.

China's first train from Beijing to Tibet made the final leg of its journey Monday on the world's highest railway, climbing to such high elevations that ballpoint pens and packaged foods burst in ...