The Chinese scientific expedition team climbed to the sixth highest peak in the world for the first time, about 30 kilometers away from Mount Everest.

News on October 2,Eighteen Chinese scientific expedition team members successfully climbed to the summit of Cho Oyu, the sixth highest peak in the world, and carried out a number of scientific expedition tasks such as setting up a very high-altitude automatic weather station, measuring ice and snow thickness on the peak, drilling ice cores, and collecting snow and ice samples.It is understood thatThis scientific expedition is the first time that a Chinese scientific expedition team has climbed to a peak above 8,000 meters above sea level other than Mount Everest.A total of more than 120 scientific expedition team members from 4 scientific expedition teams, 12 scientific expedition teams and 1 support support team participated.

The scientific expedition activities will focus on major scientific issues such as changes in Asian water towers, ecosystems and carbon cycles, human activities and living environment security, mineral resources and geological environment, and reveal the impact of changes in extremely high altitude areas and extreme process changes on the ecological environment of the Tibetan Plateau.

Cho Oyu is located on the border between China and Nepal and in the middle of the Himalayas. With an altitude of 8,201 meters, it is the sixth highest peak in the world. It is about 30 kilometers east of the "top of the world" Mount Everest.

Yao Tandong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and captain of the second Qinghai-Tibet scientific expedition team, said that the Cho Oyu scientific expedition is another extremely high-altitude multi-disciplinary comprehensive scientific expedition activity based on the Everest scientific expedition.It marks that our country has the systematic ability to carry out comprehensive scientific expeditions at extremely high altitudes, and "scientific mountaineering expeditions" have entered a normal mode.