World's highest cabinet meeting

Drama has its place in politics. First we had the cabinet meeting under water, now we have one on a mountain.

Cabinet meeting at Mt. Everest

On Friday, to highlight the danger that global warming poses to glaciers, Nepal's government held a Cabinet meeting at Mt. Everest - a stunt the government billed as the world's highest Cabinet meeting. The ministers posed for pictures, signed a commitment to tighten environmental regulations and expand the nation's protected areas, and then quickly flew away.

"The Everest declaration was a message to the world to minimize the negative impact of climate change on Mount Everest and other Himalayan mountains," Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal later said.

The Prime Minister, his two deputy prime ministers and the 20 Cabinet ministers were examined by doctors before boarding helicopters to Kalapathar, a flat area at an altitude of 17,192 feet (5,250 meters) next to Everest base camp, the jumping point for climbers seeking to scale the peak.