Matthews and Perry had come to Everest as part of an ambitious scientific assessment of the mountain. For climate scientists, there are few more pressing phenomena to understand than the jet stream, and the weather station would provide scientists an important new tool with which to gather data about it.Īnd yet there they were, on the roof of the world, with no way to attach the wind sensor-the most important part of the station.
The reason any of this was worth the effort, risk, and cost is because only Mount Everest and a few of its Himalayan cousins are tall enough to reliably pierce the Sub-tropical Jet Stream-one of the narrow bands of powerful winds that circle the globe at high altitudes, influencing everything from storm tracks to agriculture growing seasons. They stared at each other, both simultaneously turning over this fact in their oxygen-deprived brains and seeking a solution. The men searched and re-searched the packs, but it was nowhere to be found. And among the coils of guy-wire, aluminum poles, and various scientific instruments, there was supposed to be two short sections of metal tubing that connect the wind sensors to the main structure. To lug the weather station to top of the world had required parceling its pieces out among the members of their team. Follow along as the team climbs into the mountain’s “death zone” to complete the network of weather stations in order to improve our understanding of climate change. Everest, including the highest weather station on Earth. In 2019, members of the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition set out to install five new weather stations on Mt.
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