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    1) The document discusses the melting of the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the potential impacts. 2) It notes that over 80% of the ice cover on Kilimanjaro has been lost since 1912 and the remaining ice fields may disappear completely within 15 years if melting continues at the current rate. 3) The melting glaciers could impact the local economy and water supply, as Kilimanjaro currently provides water for farms and is a major tourist attraction bringing $$$ to the region.

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    1) The document discusses the melting of the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the potential impacts. 2) It notes that over 80% of the ice cover on Kilimanjaro has been lost since 1912 and the remaining ice fields may disappear completely within 15 years if melting continues at the current rate. 3) The melting glaciers could impact the local economy and water supply, as Kilimanjaro currently provides water for farms and is a major tourist attraction bringing $$$ to the region.

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    1) The document discusses the melting of the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the potential impacts. 2) It notes that over 80% of the ice cover on Kilimanjaro has been lost since 1912 and the remaining ice fields may disappear completely within 15 years if melting continues at the current rate. 3) The melting glaciers could impact the local economy and water supply, as Kilimanjaro currently provides water for farms and is a major tourist attraction bringing $$$ to the region.

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    The Missing Snows of Kilimanjaro

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    1) The document discusses the melting of the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the potential impacts. 2) It notes that over 80% of the ice cover on Kilimanjaro has been lost since 1912 and the remaining ice fields may disappear completely within 15 years if melting continues at the current rate. 3) The melting glaciers could impact the local economy and water supply, as Kilimanjaro currently provides water for farms and is a major tourist attraction bringing $$$ to the region.

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    INSTITUTO TECNOLGICO DEL VALLE

    DEL YAQUI

    The Missing Snows Of Kilimanjaro

    Integrantes:

    Jess Alfonso Lpez Elizalde

    Ing. Industrias
    Alimentarias

    Materia:

    Ingles
    Kilimanjaro, by any name, is a metaphor for the compelling beauty of East Africa.
    Not only is this the highest peak on the African continent; it is also the tallest free-
    standing mountain in the world, rising in breathtaking
    isolation from the surrounding coastal scrubland
    elevation around 900 metres to an imperious
    5,895 metres (19,336 feet).

    Kilimanjaro is one of the world's most


    accessible high summits, a beacon for visitors
    from around the world. Most climbers reach the
    crater rim with little more than a walking stick, proper clothing and determination.
    And those who reach Uhuru Point, the actual summit, or Gillman's Point on the lip
    of the crater, will have earned their climbing certificates. And their memories.

    But there is so much more to Kili than her summit. The ascent of the slopes is a
    virtual climatic world tour, from the tropics to the Arctic.

    Even before you cross the national park boundary (at the 2,700m contour), the
    cultivated footslopes give way to lush montane forest, inhabited by elusive
    elephant, leopard, buffalo, the endangered Abbots duiker, and other small
    antelope and primates. Higher still lies the moorland zone, where a cover of giant
    heather is studded with otherworldly giant lobelias.

    Kilimanjaro, literally the "mountain of snow", is a place where God was said to
    live, a provider of water for the local Chagga people and, today, the single largest
    source of tourist dollars in a struggling economy.

    But the ice is melting and once it is gone, there is a real concern that the 20,000
    tourists who come to climb the mountain each year will be gone too. After all a
    mountain without snow in Africa is just another mountain.

    The precise reasons why the ice fields are shrinking are complex, but deforestation
    and global warming are commonly blamed.
    Frozen archive: Phil Ndesamburo, the MP for
    the area, remembers the mountain of his
    childhoodcovered in snow. Now, in his
    seventies, Phil shared his concerns for the
    future.

    "Without this mountain, we cannot live. It


    provides water for the coffee and banana plantations at
    the base of the mountain, and without water there is no
    life," he said.

    Kilimanjaro glacier: The crater glacier is a shadow of its former glory

    We set off just after dawn. At the gate to the Kilimanjaro National Park, the porters,
    guides and would-be climbers are massing for the ascent. With the hazards of
    altitude sickness, more than half of them will not reach the summit.

    Each porter carries a massive 20kg (45lbs). My pack weighs in at four. For four
    days, we climb steadily upwards, camping each night until we reach the ice.

    Professor Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, US, has been
    studying the ice cores his team took from the mountain in 2000.

    They were drilled in the Northern and Southern Ice Fields and in the thin
    Furtwngler Glacier within the crater.

    The cores are a frozen archive with 12,000 years of climatic history locked in the
    ice.

    His research shows that over 80% of the ice cover has been lost since 1912, and
    given the current rate of decline, he predicts that the ice fields will be gone
    completely in the next 15 years.

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