World’s Highest Operating Weather Stations Installed on Mount Everest
- A team led by the National Geographic Society and Nepal’s Tribhuvan University has successfully installed the world’s highest operating weather stations on Mount Everest.
- Total 5 weather stations have been installed that will help to provide near real-time information about mountain conditions to researchers, climbers, and the public.
- The highest one has been installed at Balcony area (8,430 m) and South Col (7,945 m).
- The Balcony weather station is the first weather station which is installed at an elevation above 8,000 metres.
- The other stations were placed at Phortse (3,810 m), Everest Base Camp (5,315 m) and Camp II (6,464 m).