Himalaya

Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks. The government ...  

SYANGBOCHE, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's government calls it the world's highest Cabinet meeting. Top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks and sat at folding tables in the frigid, thin air of Mount Everest. The stunt was intended to draw attention to the ...  

With icy winds blowing on a sunny morning, 24 of Nepal’s 27 ministers — in layers of protective clothing, and armed with oxygen tanks — held a historic meeting at Kala Patthar, 17,192 ft above sea level. The meeting at a Mt. Everest base camp ...  

Armed with oxygen tanks, Premier Madhav Kumar Nepal and his 23 Cabinet colleagues on Friday held a historic meeting at the base camp of Mt Everest amid freezing temperatures to highlight the danger posed by global warming to the Himalayas, ahead of ...  

... window at Syangboche, a town 3900 meters above sea level, in Nepal, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of Nepalese ministers reached the Mount Everest region Thursday for a Cabinet meeting being billed as the highest ... levels in their blood and ...  

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and his Cabinet met Friday on Mount Everest to highlight the adverse impact of climate change on the Himalayas. Nepal and his 23 ministers were flown by ...  

LUKLA, Nepal (AFP) – Nepalese ministers arrived Thursday in Lukla, one of the main towns in the Everest region, ahead of a high-altitude cabinet meeting to stress the impact of global warming on the Himalayas . Scientists say the Himalayan glaciers ...  

KATHMANDU, Dec. 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Nepal's Cabinet met at Kala Pattar, a picturesque plateau along the trekking route to the top of Mt. Everest, on Friday morning to draw global attention to the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers. Prime ...  

KATHMANDU - In de aanloop naar de klimaattop in Kopenhagen vraagt het kabinet van Nepal vrijdag op bijzondere wijze de aandacht voor de klimaatveranderingen in eigen land. De 21 ministers gaan een half uur vergaderen op de Mount Everest. Gerelateerd nieuws: - Kabinet Malediven vergadert onder water  

Kathmandu: Nepal's coalition government Friday basked in the global limelight with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal leading a historic meeting of his cabinet in the shadow of Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, to draw the attention of ...  

Kathmandu: Nepalese ministers on Friday will hold a Cabinet meet to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar ...  

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan. Prime ...  

For at sætte fokus på konsekvensen af den globale opvarmning i Himalaya samles Nepals ministre til et regeringsmøde i godt 5000 meters højde på et plateau oven for Lukla, der er en af de vigtigste byer i Everest-regionen.  

Nepalese ministers are preparing to hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to raise awareness of the effects of climate change. Ministers hope the world's highest cabinet meeting will attract the same attention as a similar event held underwater in ...  

KATHMANDU: Ignoring protests by Maoists that crippled government offices nationwide on Thursday, Nepal’s PM Madhav Kumar Nepal and 23 ministers as well as civil servants and nearly 100 journalists flew to northern Lukla district, considered the ...