China has placed an automatic weather station on top of Mount Qoomolangma¸ or Mount Everest as it is known in the West. The work was a accomplished by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and with the aid of some very experienced Tibetan mountain climbers. In addition to the weather station, eight elevation-gradient meteorological stations have been set up on Qoomolangma at over 8,000 meters (~26,250 feet) high.
Collecting and studying data from Qomolangma, at 8,849 meters above sea level, and its surroundings will yield valuable insight about the condition of local glaciers and mountain snow, which have been the water source for more than 10 major rivers in Asia that nurture more than 2.5 billion people, the journal Science of the Total Environment reported.
