Mondinelli and the world’s highest weather station

Silvio Mondinelli has succeeded in repairing the EvK2Cnr Committee weather station, at an altitude of more than 8000 metres on Everest’s South Col.

Silvio Mondinelli: mission accomplished. Once again the customs officer from Alagna and key member of the Ferrino Technical Team has shown himself to be a true iron man when it comes to high altitudes. It goes without saying that the task was by no means an easy one. In fact, Mondinelli, together with Nima Sherpa had to repair the world’s highest weather station, at an altitude of 8000 metres on Everest’s South Col.

This is the same station – part of the climate and environment monitoring network of the Share Project, Stations at High Altitude for Research on the Environment, by the EvK2Cnr Committee – that Mondinelli, together with Marco Confortola and Michele Enzio, had installed on the world’s highest mountain last year.

Doubtless this was a difficult mission. In fact, to repair the weather station’s sensors and batteries, which had been seriously damaged by the Himalayan winter, Mondinelli had to make two journeys up to the 8000 metres of Everest’s South Col.

Two expeditions at the highest altitudes, which Mondinelli completed with his usual fast and light style and without using supplementary oxygen. In any case, we have come to expect this and more from Mondinelli, the 6th man in the world to have summited all 14 Eight-thousanders.