The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping will jointly organize a comprehensive expedition trip to investigate the Everest area on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.  Starting from March 20 and winding up on June 20, 2005, the expedition is also missioned to measure the latest height of the Everest Peak.

As a major scientific initiative following the previous three expeditions organized at the national levels in 1959, 1966 and 1975 respectively, the exploring trip will focus on the regional response of the Everest Peak to the global greenhouse environment in the past three decades, from diversified angles, including atmospheric physics and chemistry, glacier evolution, changes of biodiversity and ecological environment, geology and geophysics.

In addition, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping will, taking advantage of Chinese women mountaineering team climbing up the Everest Peak, and other means such as radar and GPS, make the latest measurement of the Peak?痵 height.