LHASA, China - The first train from Beijing to Tibet finished an arduous journey along the world's highest railway Monday, opening direct service to the Himalayan region that China has been trying for decades to tame.
Pens spit ink and packaged foods burst in the low pressure as the "Sky Train" climbed the 16,640-foot Tanggula Pass. Laptop computers and digital music players failed, the tiny air bags that cushion their moving parts broken at high altitude.
Some passengers threw up. Others took Tibetan herbs or breathed oxygen from tubes. Outside, Tibetan antelope and wild donkeys grazed beneath snowcapped mountains and deep-blue skies.
Despite Beijing's public …
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