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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

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So far, all the expedition members have safely withdrawn to the base camp on the southern slope of Mount Qomolangma.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.