The summit of Mount Everest is the highest elevation of our planet, just dark, but it is still a mystery: the geoscientists continue to baffle the mechanisms that moved (and continue to move) the mountain. Unique them while deepening the current levels in Jet while investigating “how to build the highest mountain in the world.”
Other stories on this subject explore how Everest and the rest of the Himalayas are throwing long shadows both north and south. To the north, climate change and global energy demands are redefining China’s approach to manage mineral resources on the northern Tibetan plateau (“concerns about lithium, water and climate in the two highest deserts on Earth “. To the south, they are making melted ice packages, they are making” millions in India vulnerable to the floods of the glacial lake. “
From fossils of the summit that hints at an old ocean to satellite that models future floods, geoscientifics are using innovative tools and intellectual insight to better understand Everest and the roof of the world.
—Caryl-sue mycalizio, editor in chief
Citation: MICALIZIO, C.-S. (2025), geological mysteries at 8,000 meters, EOS, 106, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025o250060. Posted on February 13, 2025.
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