One more Nepali mountain
has made it to the list of eight- thousander list if a study by Chinese
scientists is anything to go by. A study carried out by Cold and Arid Regions
Environmental and Engineering Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences
puts Annapurna East (8,013m) in the elite group of mountains. Two more
mountains – Mount Center (8,011m) along the Borders between China and Kashmir and
Mount West Shisha Pangma (8,008m) in Tibet - have also made it to the eight- thousander
list, according to the study. The new additions mean the number of mountains exceeding
8,000 meters has reached 17. According to Xinhua, Chinese scientists have completed
mapping out all the 17 mountains with the height of more than 8,000 meters
above the sea level. They are expected to publish their findings in a book
"World Eight- thousander Snow Mountain Atlas" soon. The atlas, which
includes seven 1:100000 maps, will be published both in
Chinese and English. It will provide theoretical evidence to the glacier
research and give detailed mapping materials to the mountaineers, said Mi Desheng,
researcher at the institute.
Source : 'TAAN
E-News."
