Indicates the type of a location. Location Type Defined by CCTVPLUS Indicates the role that a specific instance of a description takes among all descriptions. Description Role Defined by CCTVPLUS The role in the overall content stream. Part Role Indicates a kind of content rendition. Content Rendition Defined by CCTVPLUS CCTV Newscontent Co.,Ltd. CCTV Newscontent Co.,Ltd. All Rights Reserved. No access Chinese mainland CCTV Newscontent www.cctvplus.com +86-10-83949886 +86-10-63978447 contact@cctvplus.com 2026-05-26T16:27:05Z 2026-05-26T16:27:05Z 2026-05-26 2014-11-06T09:22:45Z China Central Television Nepal Science/Other Recent Nepal-China/Qomolangma/Sampling China-Nepal expedition completes first full-depth ice core drilling at Qomolangma summit A China-Nepal joint scientific expedition team has completed the first full-depth ice core drilling at the summit of Mount Qomolangma from the Nepali side. The team conducted multi-gradient ice and snow core sampling as it advanced from the 6,000-meter altitude area on the southern slope of Mount Qomolangma towards the summit at 8,848.86 meters. Meanwhile, it also aimed to complete scientific research tasks such as temperature measurement of the ice cave at the summit. So far, all the expedition members have safely withdrawn to the base camp on the southern slope of Mount Qomolangma. They collected ice and snow core samples at multiple altitude gradients on the way down. The samples they took will be sent to laboratories under low-temperature conditions for the study of climate and environmental changes in the world's highest region, cryosphere evolution, and atmospheric records at extreme altitudes. Nats/Part Mute Nepal - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 1. Base camp of China-Nepal joint Mount Qomolangma expedition team 2. Various of expedition team climbing up, down Mount Qomolangma, collecting samples 3. Team members, samples