The Everest expedition that built the world’s highest weather station

A 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition has earned three Guinness World Records — installing the highest-altitude weather station, collecting the highest-altitude ice core sample, and finding the highest-altitude microplastics on land. Just after dawn on May 23, 2019, two climate scientists, Tom Matthews and Baker Perry, stood on the Southeast Ridge […]

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