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Nepalese cabinet to hold Everest meeting |
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Updated at: 0840 PST, Friday, December 04, 2009 |
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KALAPATTAR: Nepalese ministers prepared Friday to fly to a remote mountain plateau in the shadow of Everest for a high-altitude cabinet meeting to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and 22 other ministers underwent medical tests on Friday before being declared fit to travel by helicopter to the Kalapattar plateau, 5,262 meters (17,192 feet) up in the Himalayas. There, they will take part in a traditional Sherpa prayer ceremony before approving the speech to be delivered by the prime minister at next week's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.
Scientists say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and creating huge glacial lakes that threaten to burst, devastating mountain communities downstream.
They warn that the glaciers could disappear within decades, bringing drought to large swathes of Asia, where 1.3 billion people depend on rivers that originate in the Himalayas. |
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Total cabinet led by PM had to pass special blood test
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