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The difficulty of the summiting mission this time is "beyond imagination," says Dechen Ngodrup, head of a Chinese expedition team who reached the top of Mt. Qomolangma last week. The squad established the world's highest automatic meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of 8,830 meters. #GLOBALink Produced by Xinhua Global Service

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