Talk about stating the obvious. Who was under the impression that they weren't? What do these people want, an asterisk next to Hillary? Who cares? It's not news when a sherpa goes up, it's news when a pasty-faced white boy does. (related phenomenon: dunking in the WNBA).
Talk about stating the obvious. Who was under the impression that they weren't?
Actually, the people who first discovered the mountain probably did so long before there was an England, China, or Tibet.
The whole brouhaha is only illustrative of the silliness of the Chinese government.