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Nepal cabinet meeting on Mt Everest

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November 11th.

How are they going to get up there?

FLY.

Dumb, dumb idea. This will never work.

The meeting will be held later this month, just ahead of December’s Copenhagen climate change summit, at a base camp on the world’s highest mountain.

The Himalayan glaciers – known as the world’s third ice-cap – feed some of the region’s greatest rivers, including the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Brahmaputra. They also irrigate farmland in Tibet, Nepal, Bangladesh and India. …

Nepal’s ministers will now follow the lead of ministers in the Maldives who staged a cabinet meeting under water to highlight the risk of the tropical islands being submerged by rising sea levels. They will meet later this month at a base camp at 5,300 metres where mountaineers begin their final ascent of Everest. …

Nepal to hold cabinet meeting on Mount Everest

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Update: Nepali cabinet meeting at base camp of Mt. Qomolangma uncertain

Written by rickmc

November 8, 2009 at 6:56 am

Posted in government, hiking

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  1. Hi, World first time Became Cabinet Meeting in Everest B.C was wonderful and Memory of the Life. it is good positive in future Tourism.
    thank you
    shahadev

    shahadev

    December 13, 2009 at 10:27 am


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