Everest is an iconic place to be able to search the changes.

This high up is critically important to science.

Hard.

Once you get to about 5000 m for around base camp, you are above where most of the science on the planet is being done.

The big goal off this expedition is to collect scientific information about climate change.

What we're doing in assessing how climate change is affecting species, we're doing an elevation ALS biodiversity survey to identify all the species that live in the environment based on the water samples.

All right, let's go.

All right, let's go to that.

Blake, Let's go.

Uh huh.

All right.

Yeah.

Think that should be good.

She wants the whole closer to the edge, so you don't start toe stand there.

Things should be all right.

By studying the species up here and how they're adapting.

That might teach us ways that we have to consider adapting ourselves.

Yeah.

Here you go.

All right.

Well, it is.

What?

Yeah, the bottom.

But also where?

How far up on our planet Earth does our human emperor reach on?

To what extent?

We want to investigate how this imprint accelerates snow and ice melting.

So we're collecting a bunch of snow samples.

But we are also collecting detailed measurements.

Off surface reflect INTs decision.

What type of precipitation is It's not about box and what it's at the top.

So many livelihoods depend on what's happening upstream up high with the ice.

With the snow, 20% of the world lives downstream off these really vulnerable glaciers here in the Himalaya and what people decide to do downstream effects, high altitude environments to bring any change or any solutions for us.

We need to understand the problem and what these glaciers are going through.

Mapping is an extremely useful toe in understanding across the glacier, and how they're changing like a picture is worth 1000 words.

If you have a lot of pictures and you can create a very illustrative map with lots of information that is very, very essential to understand these glaciers and their dynamics, Yeah, What we're gonna be able to do then is compare base camp back into the past and into the future, and this gives us a super detailed look at the ice and how it's gonna be changing and how it has changed.

Mhm.

Yeah.

My role here is to collect ice core and snow samples on the way up from Khumbu Glacier across the Khumbu Icefall up to 8000 m.

It's possible nobody before study ice cores from ladder elevation.

And that will be new puzzle piece that provide data on better understanding what's happening at higher elevations.

Okay, we want to know in real time what's going on in the mountain.

The weather station sees a whole year's worth of weather possibilities.

Then we can use machine learning to provided a totally different approach to how you can forecast weather to have a weather station where you're literally touching the next level of the atmosphere is critically important.

The very idea that the highest part off the planet has bean impacted by human activity ought to be a real wake up call, right?