Tibet will hold an annual climbing meeting for college students from the summer of 2010, according to Nimar Tsering, captain of the Tibetan Mountaineering Team at the 9th Tibet Spring Climbing Meeting.

Nimar, also curator of the Tibetan Mountaineering Museum, said that the Tibet climbing meeting has been the biggest national platform for amateur climbers.

The Climbing Party from China Agriculture University has organized several climbing activities in southwest China's Qinghai Province and Tibet Autonomous Region. Its members have successfully climbed Mt.s Chitzi at 6,206 m height in Tibet in July 2005, photo from Xinhua.

Since 2002,the Tibet's Mountaineering Guide School based in Lhasa has trained 500 students from domestic colleges, including China University of Geosciences, Xiamen University, People's University of China and Beijing Normal University,

In recent years, as mountaineering has been becoming increasingly popular among college students in China, many problems related to this sport have cropped up, such as blind pursuit of climbing altitude and inadequate services to guarantee climber's safety.

Tibet will hold an annual climbing meeting for college students from the summer of 2010, photo from Xinhua.

With a good knowledge of the regional mountain resources and professional climbing services, Tibet's mountaineering organizations will try to meet college students' demand for climbing snow-capped mountains.

They will choose those mountains with an appropriate height and send experienced couches, assistants and liaison personnel to help the students climb.

"This meeting is not aimed at offering college students the opportunity to challenge the highest peak, but designed to enable them to learn how to climb and enjoy the climbing process," Nimar added.