They made it.
From today the new weather sensor will send hourly information valuable to scientific research centers in the world.
An all-Italian project well sailed by a team of trained and stubborn.
I assisted in the tests to confirm the correct transmission of data collected from the new weather station on South Col at 8000 meters above sea level: difficult to describe the explosion of joy of the crew, a choir of thunderous applause and shouts that he joined the staff that ideally work here in Italy with members of the expedition that found on the slopes of Everest. Now it made the transmission of live images, and this time there is a small part of the work for me. Cross your fingers!
Here's the press release announcing the extraordinary event:
Press release
No. 008, May 15, 2008
Lobuche, Nepal - It 'a memorable date for today's science and mountaineering Italians. In the midst of a violent storm, the climbers Italian Silvio Mondinelli, Michele Enzio and Marco Confortola have installed a weather station at South Col, at 8,000 meters altitude without using oxygen. The station - by far the highest in the world - is sending a few minutes, from the top of Mount Everest, unique and valuable data on the global atmosphere. An exceptional enterprise, conducted under the scientific-mountaineering expedition SHARE Everest 2008, led by Agostino Da Polenza, expedition leader and President of EvK2Cnr. Read the rest »
