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Lindsey Hilsum visits Tibet's Qinghai horse festival

Updated on 06 August 2008

By Lindsey Hilsum

Channel 4 News Beijing correspondent Lindsey Hilsum fulfils an ambition to visit a horse festival in Tibet.

The unrest in Tibet earlier this year prompted the Chinese authorities to ban large horse festivals in Tibet.

Nevertheless, Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News's Beijing correspondent, manages to join nomads as they gather for the "event of the summer", the horse festival on Tibet's Qinghai plain.

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