At noon on May 4, the members of the mainland Everest expedition team successfully reached the summit and used high-precision radar for the first time to measure the thickness of ice and snow at the summit. At about 12:46, the team successfully erected the world's highest automatic weather station on Mount Everest. This is the first time that the scientific expedition of Mount Everest on the mainland has exceeded the altitude of more than 8,000 meters, which is of epoch-making significance in the history of scientific investigation and research on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Expedition personnel personally measure the effects of extremely high altitude on the human body (02:14)
In order to explore the impact of altitude sickness on the human body and obtain first-hand data, Zhu Tong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Peking University, and some researchers used their own bodies as experimental objects, wore sensors that measured blood oxygen and ECG monitoring, and walked back and forth between the Everest Mountaineering Base Camp and the Rongbu Glacier. In order to obtain more data, the expedition team will track the population at an altitude of 5200 meters, 5800 meters, 6350 meters and 8848 meters at an altitude of 5200 meters, and carry out scientific research on the human health effects of hypoxia at high altitudes.
May 1, 2002, Everest Mountaineering Base Camp.
On May 1, 2002, at the Everest Mountaineering Base Camp, Zhu Tong demonstrated the wearable Holter ECG recorder for scientific expeditions.
On May 1, 2002, Zhu Tong and researchers set off on foot from the Everest Mountaineering Base Camp.
On May 1, 2002, members of the Everest Atmospheric and Human Health Expedition team were collating the samples collected.
"Peak Mission 2022 - Comprehensive Scientific Expedition and Research on the Extremely High Altitude Area of Mount Everest" was attended by 16 scientific expedition teams from 5 scientific expedition teams and a total of more than 270 scientific expedition team members. This is a comprehensive scientific expedition with the widest subject coverage, the largest number of participants, and the most advanced instruments and equipment since the launch of the comprehensive scientific expedition on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in 2017. The "Peak Mission" Everest scientific expedition will for the first time break through the altitude of more than 8,000 meters and complete the comprehensive scientific investigation task of the summit of Mount Everest, which is a feat of human beings to carry out extremely high altitude comprehensive scientific investigation and research in the Everest region.
Source: Xinhua News Agency, CCTV News