Two rare wild cats have been discovered in one of the world’s most remote environments: Mount Everest. Perhaps they just wanted to get as far away as possible from everyone, for a pair of Pallas’s cats—the original “Grumpy Cat”—have been found living in Nepal’s Sagarmatha National Park, in the Everest region.
As reported in the publication Cat News, a team of scientists who collected environmental samples from “the top of the world” was amazed to discover evidence of the Pallas’s cats inhabiting the remote high-alpine ecosystem.
The month-long junket, part of the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Expedition, was described as “the most comprehensive single scientific expedition to the mountain in history” by the feline-devoted outlet….