The Extreme Ice Survey had a five-man team mount five cameras on the Himalayas in three locations to record the changing glacial landscape of Mount Everest and neighboring Ama Dablam.
Two of the cameras will focus on capturing images encompassing the entire mountain of Everest and Khumbu glacier, another two will record the Khumbu icefall, and the last camera will record Ama Dablam and the Nare Glacier.
Extreme Ice Survey’s director James Balog and mountaineer Conrad Anker have chosen the locations of the cameras carefully based on historical photographs. The cameras will remain there for three years, take pictures every 30 minutes, and photos will be retrieved from the cameras every three months depending on the weather conditions. The ultimate purpose of the project is to see how the region is being affected by climate change, and especially to address discrepancies over the water storage of the Himalayas, which provides water to one billion people.
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