Not sure what the other Axis of Evil members gain from this

Old news -- the date on the story is September 30th -- but I don't remember hearing anything about it at the time. Theliberalmedia covering up for America's enemies, as usual, I expect.

U.S. Climbers in Nepal Claim Attack

Two American mountain climbers say they came under fire from men who appeared to be Chinese soldiers during a hike in Nepal near the border.

Jeff Lamoureux, 36, and David Morton, 31, both from Seattle, Wash., said in an interview Monday in Katmandu that two men shot at them on Sept. 20 while they were looking for a new route to climb 23,984-foot Mount Nagpai Gosum.

They were more than seven miles inside Nepalese territory at the time, they said.

[. . .] The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing said it had no information on the case but would investigate.

No similar incidents have been reported in the past and the motive remained unclear.

I was asking the same thing when I read this. Why tell the reader how high Nagpai Gosum is?

Not that this is exactly the safest place on the planet to go wandering around.

Tibet trek to Nepal exacts deadly toll

The Himalayas run through the border of both Nepal and Tibet. On one side, a Chinese regime which stifles religious freedom. On the other, a massive exiled Tibetan community headed by their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Children and teenagers attempt the trek, walking and hiking from one side of the mountain range to the other.

But while some make it over the mountains, hundreds of young Tibetans die every year attempting to escape Chinese rule.

Since it ain't like we care all that much about children or teenagers here in the U.S., the deaths of a few hundred of 'em on the other side of the planet is hardly worth noting.

Also not worth noting, if two guys from Seattle were really likely to find a "new route" the locals hadn't been previously aware of.