EvK2Cnr supports the 5th National Conference on Science and Technology
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- EvK2Cnr, as the partner of the Hkkh Partnership Project focused on management-oriented environmental research, actively supports the 5th National Conference on Science and Technology organized by the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology in Kathmandu on November 10-12th.
Geneva, EvK2Cnr and High Elevations at the Ceop Annual Meeting
GENEVA, Switzerland – It’s just started in Geneva the CEOP International Implementation Planning Meeting, held on 15-17 September 2008 and hosted by the WCRP Secretariat at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Headquarters building. During the meeting, EvK2Cnr Committee will play a chief role in the session on High Elevations initiative.
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.
