Scientists from National Geographic Society and
Tribhuvan University installed have
installed two
highest weather stations in the world in an expedition
to Mount
Everest that wrapped up in June 2019. The two weather
monitoring stations are located at an altitude of 8,430 meters (27,657 feet) and 7,945
meters (26,066 feet). Also, three other stations have been set
up across the Mount Everest.
The setting up of the weather station aim to collect weather data.
The data gathered from the stations will help scientists to understand how
rising global temperatures impacts the rapidly melting glaciers.
The nearly two month expedition involved a team
of more than 30
scientists from all over the world, including 17 Nepali researchers. The
team also collected the world highest ice core sample at 8,020 meters , which
will help the scientists study the deep record of precipitation on the mountain
and composition of the atmosphere during pre-industrial times.
The project also reached another milestone of
placing the world’s
highest helicopter-based lidar scan and the most detailed
photogrammetric imaging, also with lidar scans, of the Everest Base Camp area
and the entire Khumbu Glacier.
