Khumbu Valley: exclusive photos of a snow leopard
NAMCHE, Nepal -- Crouched on the edge of an overhang, looking at his prey. Here's one of the few spectacular photos of a snow leopard living in Nepali forests. The shooting was done by a local photographer, Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, who managed to immortalize this rare Asian feline near Namche village, in the heart of the Sagarmatha National Park.
Leopard sighted in Namche
NAMCHE -- New and important sighting for the snow leopard in Nepal. For the first time, in fact, members of the research group EvK2Cnr/ NAST have sighted a snow leopard near Ngyrse, about 1 km west of Namche Bazaar, at an altitude of 3,372 m (GPS: 27.80276, 86.70476 ).
SNPBZ mapping handed over to DNPWC
KATHMANDU, Nepal --The Hindukush Karakoram Himalayan region (HKKH) Partnership handed over the results of a significant land cover research of Sagarmatha National Park and its Buffer Zone (SNPBZ) to C (DNPWC) on Wednesday.
The second calibration campaign at Everest-Pyramid station
BOLOGNA -- After the installation of the Everest-Pyramid ABC-GAW Station at 5079 m asl, along the Khumbu Valley, in February 2006, the station is quite automatically running. A technical check of instruments and quality assurance of data are guaranteed by remote access of every instrument and acquisition system (from Italy and France), but also thanks to Nepalese staff present 365 days per year at Pyramid Laboratory.
International scientific feat on Mt. Everest: the highest automatic weather station installed on South Col. Real time data
LOBUCHE, Nepal – May 15, 2008 will go down in history as an unforgettable day for research and mountain climbing. Undaunted by a snowstorm, Italian mountaineers Silvio “Gnaro” Mondinelli, Marco Confortola and Michele Enzio and Nepali climbers Dawa Tshering Sherpa, Pema Chhosang Sherpa and Thsiri Sherpa of Khumjung, Phura Sherpa of Namche and Phura Sherpa of Walung, installed the world’s highest automatic weather station (AWS) on Everest’s South Col at 8,000 m (26,247 ft.) a.s.l., without using supplemental oxygen. The station is now continuously sending unique, valuable data on the roof of the world’s weather conditions to scientists in Italy in near real time.
Ev-K2-CNR signs an agreement with the Nepal Ministry of Tourism
A crucial step toward CKNP implementation
On October 30th, 2007, a Research Oriented workshop was hosted by the Karakurum International University in Gilgit. The event, organized by Ev-K2-CNR within the HKKH Partnership Project, gathered experts and researchers from Pakistan, Italy and Nepal, and provided the basis for a collective implementation of a number of research activities to be conducted in the Central Karakoram National Park (CKNP). Also several students from the International Karakurum University participated actively to all the sessions.
