App State faculty conducted weather station maintenance on Mount Everest as part of an expedition supported by the National Geographic Society and Rolex.
KATHMANDU, April 26: Nepali mountaineer Tenzing Gyalzen Sherpa has been awarded the Guinness World Record for leading a team that installed a high-altitude weather station on Bishop’s Rock, a slab of rock just below the summit of Everest at 8,810 meters.
Tom Matthews and Baker Perry, climate scientists and co-leaders of the project, spearheaded the construction of a redesigned weather station that could withstand the extreme conditions.
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