To highlight the negative impacts of global warming on Mount Everest, with the iconic mountain providing the backdrop, Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, his two deputy ministers, and twenty Cabinet ministers held a special meeting Friday - a meeting at 17,192 feet.  The cabinet, all of whom wore oxygen masks and were examined by doctors before taking a helicopter to Kalapather, next to Everest base camp,  met for twenty minutes with the intent "to get the world's attention on the impact global warming is having on underdeveloped countries like Nepal."  For more on the impact global warming is having on underdeveloped nations, read our post "Climate Debt" from early November. 

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