Feature: Braving cold, quake rescuers race against time on world's highest plateau

LHASA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Just half an hour after the 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Dingri County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Dondrup Tsering got to work, combing through the debris as he searched for survivors.

"My colleagues and I used our hands to dig through ruined homes and pull out buried people," said Dondrup Tsering, a local police officer of Tibetan ethnic group. His face was marred