Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal, Jan 15, 2020. BEIJING: China has set up weather stations on Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world on Tibet's border with Nepal, expanding a series of high-altitude meteorological gauges in the Himalayas to monitor the impact of climate change on Asia's"water tower".
Since the end of September, a Chinese team has set up five automatic weather stations on Cho Oyu, at altitudes from 4,950m to its summit at 8,201m, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday .Initial research showed that the ice layer on Cho Oyu was the thickest among peaks above 8,000m, with a thickness of more than 70m being seen, Xinhua reported.
Monitoring the effects of global warming has taken on urgency after one of the warmest summers in the northern hemisphere this year.Torrential rain in India's northeastern Sikkim state burst the banks of a glacial lake and triggered flash floods