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ROME -- Back to 8000 m of height on Mt. Everest, to re-instate the South Col weather station installed in 2008 by the EvK2Cnr Committee: flagship of the SHARE (Stations at High Altitude for Research on the Environment) International Environmental Project, the South Col Automatic Weather Station (AWS) is the first weather station in the world providing weather measurements at such an altitude. The mission, which is carried out in close co-operation with the Italian Minister for Education, University and Research (MIUR) and the National Research Council (CNR), was presented on April 20th, in a press conference in Rome, where Minister of University, Education and Research, Mariastella Gelmini said herself proud of a project like SHARE, which is going to bring, once more, the Italian excellence in high-altitude scientific research up to the highest mountain in the world, in the 150th anniversary of Italy’s national unification. The project falls within the collaboration between EvK2Cnr and the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and was approved during the Bilateral technical committee of March, 24 2011.