World's highest automatic weather station to be set up on Mt. Qomolangma

STORY: World's highest automatic weather station to be set up on Mt. Qomolangma DATELINE: May 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: LHASA, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the expedition camp in Mount Qomolangma 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO HUABIAO, Associate researcher with Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences STORYLINE: China is to establish a meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of 8,800 meters on Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, on the China-Nepal border. Researchers say the equipment weighing some 50 kg will be distributed to mountaineers. Each of them will carry no more than 7 kg up onto the mountain for the task. If the station is established successfully, it will become the world's highest of its kind. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHAO HUABIAO, Associate researcher with Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences "Once completed, it will be the highest meteorological monitoring station in

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