Kathmandu: A Chinese expedition team climbed Mt Everest from the Tibetan side on Wednesday afternoon. The team of “Earth Summit Mission 2022” successfully made its first breakthrough above 8,000 meters with thirteen team members setting out this morning.
Upon reaching the summit, the mountaineers are now setting up the world’s highest automatic weather station at 8,800 meters above sea level, CGTN reported. The weather station will help obtain data from the surrounding area, helping scientists better understand the world’s third pole, according to the report.
Dechen Ngodrup, lead mountaineer of the Qomolangma Scientific Expedition told CGTN that he and his team members were very proud to be part of the research. “We’ll set up the world’s highest weather stations, and no country has done that before. Once it’s installed, data can be transmitted back to base camp and scientists can start their work then.”
If the station is established successfully, it will replace the one at an altitude of 8,430 meters set up by the British and U.S. scientists on the south side of the mountain in 2019, to be the world’s highest of its kind, according to the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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