Apa and Dawa Steven (in white T-shirts) at a press conference yesterday. Image courtesy of Republica's website (click to enlarge).
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Summiteers’ Summit in Copenhagen
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 02:22 am EST
(MountEverest.net) Reinhold Messner and Al Gore are some of the celebs invited to join a global warming march in Copenhagen next month. A follow up at Everest Base Camp has been proposed.
The so-called “Summiteers’ Summit”, launched by Nepal’s Government, will take place on December 11th, appointed as International Mountain Day and also coinciding with the 15th Conference of the United Nations Framework for Climate Change (COP-15), to be held in Denmark’s capital on Dec 7-18th.
Apa & Dawa Steven leading mountain celebrities
Nepal is sending 19-times Everest summiteer Apa Sherpa and young twice-summiteer Dawa Steven Sherpa as representatives, and extended the invitation to famous mountaineers such as Junko Tabei, Reinhold Messner, Peter Habeler, Maurice Herzog, Kurt Diemberger, Chris Bonington, Ken Noguchi, Ed Viesturs, Veikka Gustaffson, etc - in addition to celebrity politicians such as Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Nepal’s European embassies will meanwhile mobilize all expats currently located in the EU. "We are confident that at least a 1,000 people will easily be mobilized for the Copenhagen march,” Dawa steven said at a press conference at Nepal Tourism Board Monday. “Nepal was known to the world thanks to the Himalayas, so that now it is the climbers’ duty to come together to save the Range.”
Ministry’s Cabinet to meet in Everest BC
“Climate Change has hit hard the Himalayas in general and Nepal in particular, Minister of Forest and Soil Conservation Deepak Bohara stated in a press release. “Its effects are a rapid increase in the size of glacial lakes, erratic monsoon patterns and unprecedented forest fires."
"Although Nepal is one of the least Green House Gas (GHG) emitting countries in the world, the country ranks among one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This fact largely remains unrepresented in the global climate debate so far.”
The Ministry has also proposed to hold a cabinet meeting at Everest Base Camp. "The proposal has been in the line even before Maldives conducted its cabinet meeting under-water recently," Bohara said.
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