Mt Everest
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What's happening on Mt. Everest and K2 in 2004? |
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(Reporter 50, April 2004) For the first time ever, a Leica GPS system records
movements around Mt. Everest every 30 seconds...
Mountain climbers and scientists aren't the only
things that move around on the world's highest
mountain; in fact, Mt. Everest and the entire
Himalayan region is constantly transforming itself. In
order to capture the positions of people and nature
as well record their movements, a permanent,
solar-powered Leica GPS 530 surveying station was
installed in 2003. It is located on the Nepalese side of
the mountain, near the glass research pyramid that
was set up more than a decade ago by the Italian
research team "Ev-K2-CNR".
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