Scientists use & # 039; Drill Car Wash & # 039; in the Khumbu glacier

must go science of climate change in the Himalayas to become the first team to break the glaciers successful.

The group at the University of Aberystwyth is a huge hole of a car wash use adapted the Khumbu - Glacier on the slopes of Mount Everest to enter.

They go at an altitude of 5,000 meters (16,400ft) to work, drilling 200 meters (650 feet) on the ice.

The project leader Professor Bryn Hubbard said it will be "special problems".

Half of the teams in the Team Ever Drill 1500 kg (236 stone) are transferred to the glacier by helicopter to several trips, while the other half of Sherpas and yaks supported.

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