![]() ![]() “We don’t know what happened,” Perry told CNN. Not long after weather data began pouring in from new heights, it suddenly stopped after recording a 149 mile-per-hour gust of wind. The research team’s triumph was short-lived. “It’s like you’re on the edge of the atmosphere,” he said. “The sky is such a dark, deep, almost black, because the atmosphere is below you,” Perry said of The Balcony. Arbindra Khadka/National Geographicīut in 2019 Perry helped change that when he was part of the team that made it all the way to the “The Balcony,” which at 27,657 feet is less than 1,500 ft from the summit, to install the world’s highest weather stations. Perry's Sherpa team battle extreme conditions to finalize the construction of the weather station at Bishop Rock. Everest has been home to some of the harshest unknown conditions on Earth, because there were no weather stations past a certain point, no one knew with certainty just how bad conditions could get toward the summit. In fact, the conditions are so severe, and the terrain so difficult to traverse, Mt. ![]() Winds howl at well over a hundred miles an hour, and temperatures can drop to minus 40. And yeah, if there’s a way to get to the summit, then cool.”Įverest, which soars more than 29,000 feet into the sky above the China-Nepal border, is home to some of the most brutal weather conditions known on Earth. “We’re there to do the research and get (weather stations) up and running. “Our goal is not to summit to climb to the top,” said Baker Perry, a professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and National Geographic Explorer, who has been to Everest three times. Every year, hundreds of bold adventurers spend days or weeks in some of the harshest, most unforgiving conditions on the planet, with a singular glory-seeking goal in mind: making it to the top of Mt.
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