WORLD: Nepal follows Maldives: Nepalese Cabinet to meet on Mt Everest
Nepal --
A little over a month back, Maldives' Cabinet met underwater to highlight climate change and global warming. Nepal seems to be topping the feat, but doing a cabinet meeting on Mt. Everest.
On 4 December prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and those politicians physically fit enough will ascend 17,192ft (5,250m) to base camp.
This meeting, to be held before the Copenhagen climate conference, aims to highlight Himalayan glacier melt.
With ice in the region melting at a rapid rate, lakes have been formed which could flood nearby villages.
Melted ice and snow also makes mountaineering routes more hazardous.
At such a high altitude health is a major concern, so a team of doctors will accompany the politicians.
They will fly to Everest's only airstrip, Lukla.
Doctors will make a final health assessment before a helicopter takes the cabinet to base camp, at the foot of Everest.
Once there they will hold a brief outdoor meeting. Source: news.bbc.co.uk
I wonder where other leaders will meet for climate control in their countries? Inside a volcano would be my next guess.

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