Now, Nepal to have climate meet on Everest

Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009 at 0015 hrs IST
Updated: Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009 at 0015 hrs IST

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Kathmandu: Nepal’s Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.

The Cabinet will meet at the Everest base camp later this month, just ahead of an international climate change conference next month in Copenhagen, Denmark, Forest and soil conservation minister Deepak Bohara said. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and other Cabinet members will fly by plane to the 17,400-foot (5,300-metre) camp, the starting point for mountaineers attempting to climb the world’s highest mountain.

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