04.30.08
Tibet Sign Costs Climber Everest Trek
Tibet Sign Costs Climber Everest Trek
Va. Man Finds Politics Don’t Play on World’s Highest Peak
By Michael Laris
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 30, 2008; Page B03
William Brant Holland made it past the treacherous Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest before he slipped up and was booted from Nepal.
Holland arrived yesterday at Dulles International Airport after being pulled off the mountain and deported for bringing a “Free Tibet” banner from Katmandu to the world’s highest peak.