article_snippet.sent: A tunnel could be built under Mount Everest as part of a new railway between China and Nepal, A tunnel has been revealed.
article_snippet.sent: Chinese state media has reported that the government is planning to expand the Qinghai to Tibet railway 'at Nepal's request' - which could include a tunnel under the world's tallest mountain - by 2020.
article_snippet.sent: A tunnel could be built under Mount Everest in the Himalayas as part of grand new plans announced by China .
article_snippet.sent: the line will probably have to go through Qomolangma so that workers may have to dig some very long tunnels,' expert Wang Mengshu told the Chinese Daily newspaper, referring to Mount Everest by the Chinese Daily newspaper Tibetan name.
article_snippet.sent: expert Wang Mengshu said that, due to the challenging Himalayan terrain with the challenging Himalayan terrain 'remarkable' changes in elevation, trains on any line to Kathmandu would probably have a maximum speed of 120 kilometres per hour.
article_snippet.sent: A map shows where the extension of the Qinghai-Tibet railway could be built - under Mount Everest .
article_snippet.sent: Chinese tourism to Nepal, which is home to eight of the world's 14 peaks over 8,000 metres, is also climbing.
article_snippet.sent: A train run along the existing Qinghai-Tibet railway towards Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region .
highlights_snippet.sent: Expansion of Qinghai-Tibet line would go under world's highest mountain .
  