China takes Mt. Qomolangma scientific expedition to new heights

STORY: China takes Mt. Qomolangma scientific expedition to new heights DATELINE: May 21, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:28 LOCATION: LHASA, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHU TONG, Head of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Tibetan): SONAM DORJE, Member of Chinese expedition team 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): DECHEN NGODRUP, Head of the squad reaching the summit, Chinese expedition team 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): ZHANG WEIZHEN, Chinese scientific researcher 5. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): PIAO SHILONG, Academician with Chinese Academy of Sciences STORYLINE: Multiple breakthroughs have been achieved as Chinese scientific researchers conducted their latest expedition on Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak. The expedition touched upon the broadest range of disciplines, and utilized the most advanced equipment, with the participation of the largest number of researchers. Earlier this month, the Chinese researchers established an automatic meteoro

Female scientists describe memorable moments in Mt. Qomolangma scientific expedition

STORY: Female scientists describe memorable moments in Mt. Qomolangma scientific expedition DATELINE: May 10, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:01 LOCATION: LHASA, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT/SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Mount Qomolangma STORYLINE: With China's scientific research team, Liu Yang and Zhang Weizhen are now carrying out a comprehensive scientific expedition on Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak. They describe the experience as challenging and once-in-a-lifetime. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIU YANG, Scientific researcher "I am a member of the glacial microbial research squad. I need to go to different altitudes to collect soil samples, then store and process them separately to support follow-up experiments. At such high altitudes, it is already hard to walk around without carrying anything, especially on glaciers. It is even harder if you need to carry something. Every step is a great difficulty. But we all hold on to it. Participating in such a huge-scale Mount Qomolangma expedition is a very rare c