The Beijing Olympic flame has reached the top of the world on Thursday. The mountaineers celebrated the event at the 8,844 metre peak, the highest in the world, holding Chinese national flag, one of Beijing Olympics & another with Olympic’s five-rings.

A 19-member squad, seven of them in the back-up group, had set out late last night for the summit in what was described as a “final assault” for the mission by a senior official yesterday.

The climbers started the final assault at the worlds highest peak from the “Attack Camp” located at 8,300 metres above sea level at 11:30 p.m. IST & the flame reached the summit at 05:48 a.m. IST.