Nepal holds Cabinet meeting at Everest

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Environment  Fri, 12/04/2009 - 06:34

Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, center, and members of the cabinet raise hands in favor of a document to highlight the negative impacts of global warming on Mount Everest during a special cabinet meeting at Kalapatthar in Nepal, on Friday.Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks and held a Cabinet meeting amid the frigid, thin air of Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers.




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