Nepalmountainnews Report | 8 Jul 2008
The United Nations has praised the Ev-K2-CNR Committee, for its outstanding achievement in the field of scientific research.
"The international scientific fit of Share Everest 2008 is an example of Italian excellence and a good answer to the environmental priorities pointed out by the United Nations," said Srgjan Kerim, president of the UN General Assembly, to praise the expedition team that has installed the highest automatic weather station in the world at 8,000 m.a.s.l. on Mount Everest last month under leadership of its chairman Agostino Da Polenza. 
Kerim was speaking at a programme organised by the Ev-K2-CNR Committee at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Club in Rome to inaugurate a climbing wall dedicated to the Italian mountain guide Marco Forcatura, who died last February.
During the programme a presentation has also been made on Share Everest 2008 expedition, by Silvio "Gnaro" Mondinelli who led the installation of the station at South Col on Mount Everest and Da Polenza, in presence of over 150 delegates.
The presentation was followed by a film which run through all the moments of the expedition, sometimes with a lot of tension, and ended up with the live talk of the President of Italian republic Giorgio Napolitano, in Rome, with the Share Everest team, at the Pyramid Laboratory in Nepal, broadcasted by Italian national television. In that talk, Napolitano praised and encouraged all the scientific activities of the international Share project.
The event saw the prestigious presence of Srgjan Karim, president of the UN General Assembly, who was invited by ambassador Umberto Vattani, president of the Foreign Affairs Club. Karim widely praised Share Everest expedition seizing the opportunity to reaffirm the central position of environmental issues on the United Nations table. Karim also praised the "Made in Italy "with a nice comparison."God has created men with five senses - Karim said - but gave to Italian people six of them, adding the creativity".
Among the present were Gaetano Leone, deputy director of UNEP Europe and Piercarlo Sandei, also of UNEP Europe; Lorenzo Maiani, president of Italian National Research Council (CNR), Giuseppe Cavarretta, director of Cnr’s Land and Environment Department; Paolo Bonasoni of CNR Isac, Gianni Tartari of Cnr Irsa; Ivo Allegrini and Rosanna Mabilia of Cnr Iia; Giovanni Bignami, president of the Italian Space Agency, and Giacomo Cavallo.
Gianni Alemanno, Mayor of Rome and Giuseppe Vegas, Member of Parliament, along with other envoys and MPs present in the programme were stunned to have a glance of breathtaking images of the Share Everest expedition.
The installation of the highest weather station in the world, performed by Silvio “Gnaro” Mondinelli, Marco Confortola and Michele Enzio last May 15, was dedicated to the alpine guide Marco Forcatura as long as the new climbing wall of the Foreign Affairs Club, inaugurated the same evening of the presentation.
Speaking during the programmes, the speakers have praised Forcatura for his unabated efforts in the field on expedition.
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