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Chinese Border guards: "We killed in self-defense."
*update* now there's video of the killing taken by a Romanian climber, first shown on Romanian TV, available on Youtube in English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGrOh52p_aI
the galling Chinese acknowledgement of the shooting, via the Australian paper The Age
the climbers' accounts of the shooting, from mounteverest.net.
-Andrew Merz, Associate Editor
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