Sherpa awarded for installing high altitude weather station on Everest

Kathmandu: Nepal’s Tenzing Gyalzen Sherpa, a veteran mountaineer has been awarded for creating a world record by installing a high-altitude weather station on Everest.

Sherpa was awarded the Guinness World Record for leading an expedition team of 14 members 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 on May 9, 2022.

The weather station is one of the five weather stations set up on Everest which provides real data to the scientists about what is happening in and around Everest.

The first weather station is located at Phortse at an elevation of 3,810 meters. The second is situated at Everest Base Camp at an altitude of 5,315 meters; the third is at Camp 2 at 6,464 meters, the fourth on South Col at 7,965 meters, and the last one is stationed just below the summit at 8,810 meters.